[llvm-dev] LLJIT vs. thread-local storage

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:47:15PM +0530, Praveen Velliengiri via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi Jameson,
> Why thread local support is hard to support in JITs? Whether Julia supports
> Thread locals? If so, it would be very much helpful to know how.

TLS is normally handled somewhere between libc and dynamic linker. There
is currently no defined interface for requested another TLS segment or
just static TLS space.

Joerg