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

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 October 2012 12:48, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 22/10/2012 19:13, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> > 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.
>
> Which will be "never" for OpenBSD.  It just doesn't have enough support.
>
> Thread-wise OpenBSD is 100% crap, and we should stop supporting it IMHO
> until they finish their "new" thread library that's been in the works
> for 10 years or so.  FreeBSD is totally ok.

It doesn't support any kind of TLS? Wow.

-- PMM