[cfe-dev] __thread support in Clang

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:

>> 
>> Yes, it uses an emulated tls that ends up being calls out to pthread
>> and semaphore functions. I don't believe there's any plans to implement
>> this sort of thing in clang - at the least I don't plan to :)
> 
> Presumably someone plans to implement C++0x's thread_local storage duration?

Implementing thread_local would be great if you're interested, please have it generate the same IR as __thread.

-Chris