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Re: emulating tls for systems without

Geoffrey Keating wrote:

+      ptr = malloc (obj->size + sizeof (void *));
+      if (ptr == NULL)
+       abort ();

and so on.

Ah, ah...

(The big benefit of the non-emulated TLS is that memory is allocated on pthread_create(), so you know that either memory gets allocated or the thread doesn't get created, and either way you don't get random crashes...)

Indeed, that was exactly my general understanding.

Thanks a lot,
Paolo.

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