thread-local storage: c front end and generic backend patch

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-May-2002, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't be __thread const int i = 7; either forbidden, or __thread
> ignored for it (in order of preference)?

Ignoring __thread here would give the wrong semantics --
the constant should have different addresses for different threads.

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