[LLVMdev] Thread local data and atomic instructions

[Anton Korobeynikov]

Hello

> I need a shadow stack per thread and I'm not sure how to do that. Passing it
> everywhere seems like a bad idea. I could put it in a global thread id ->
> thread-local data mapping but that would incur lookup and locking every time
> I fiddle with it (which is often!). Is it possible for me to create a global
> using LLVM and mark it as thread local and use that instead?
In theory - yes, but it will work only on x86/linux. No thread local
stuff on darwin at all, for example.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University