C thread local storage support

[Martin Sustrik]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Martin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.com> writes:
> 
>> GCC documentation on thread-local variables says:
>>
>> "It requires significant support from the linker (ld), dynamic linker
>> (ld.so), and system libraries (libc.so and libpthread.so), so it is
>> not available everywhere."
>>
>> Is there any way to find out which platforms do support TLS and which
>> do not?
> 
> You can try it and see what happens.  In what context are trying to find
> out whether it works?
> 
> In general it should be supported on Linux kernels with version >= 2.6.0
> and using a sufficiently recent glibc--I think 2.4 should suffice.  It
> should also work on sufficiently recent Solaris systems.  I don't know
> about other systems.

The question was more about exotic systems. If there's no list of 
supported systems never mind, I'll just check manually.

Martin