emulating tls for systems without

[Danny Smith]

Eric Christopher wrote
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:12:12PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> >> Having finally worked out the tcl bits, and a couple of 
> >> non-regressions that showed up during a merge, I've committed the 
> >> following.
> > 
> > This is great stuff and I may have a use for it... but was 
> it really 
> > necessary to commit during Stage 3, when we seem to be having a 
> > remarkable amount of trouble getting the next release together? I 
> > can't see any conceivable interpretation of this as a regression.
> > 
> 
> Maybe not, but it does have a huge use. It means that all 
> platforms can 
> use the thread keyword without needing to have tls on the platform.
> 

Yes, mingw32 is one of those.  There are a few small patches to get
libgomp
to now work for mingw32 as well, but I was holding off on the small
stuff until
stage 1, assuming that the "great stuff" would wait till then. 

Should I still wait?
Danny