How to solve" error: thread-local storage not supported for this target "

[wj]

Hi,

I am using the gcc 3.4.2 , and when I compile one test program which use
the __thread, I get this error:

t.c:3: error: thread-local storage not supported for this target

So how to solve this problem?  My  enviroment is  PIII  +  Suse LINUX 
2.4.21.

Thanks.