Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as tls to store extra info

[liu ping fan]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22 October 2012 10:30, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can't we enhance qemu-tls.h to work via pthread_setspecific in case
>> __thread is not working and use that abstraction (DECLARE/DEFINE_TLS)
>> directly?
>
> Agreed. (There were prototype patches floating around for Win32
> at least). The only reason qemu-tls.h has the dummy not-actually-tls
> code for non-linux is that IIRC we wanted to get the linux bits
> in quickly before a release and we never got round to going back
> and doing it properly for the other targets.
>
Oh, it seems that my need of it can be covered by __thread. I will
resort to it.  BTW, what is the exception that __thread can resolve
(if ELF can support this keyword)?

Thanks and regards,
pingfan