Re: Info sought on thread local storage (TLS)

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From: Helmut Giese
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:47

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Hi Ed,
>Warning:
early warnings are always appreciated - might save a lot of time later
on.
>
>Thread Local Storage, TLS, provides a very small amount of memory.  Every 
>compiler supplies an alternate function to that provided by Win32 for 
>starting a thread.  The compiler-supplied function(s) set up a data block 
>and place the address of that block and possibly some flags into the TLS 
>memory.
>
>If you alter TLS memory you may crash the program and possibly crash the 
>machine.  If you Win32 function to start the thread in a C/C++ program then 
>you also risk causing a crash.
Huh? Doesn't sound exactly promising.
Hm, I think I will do some reading and prolong the design phase, maybe
things can be simplified.
Thanks for the alert and best regards
Helmut Giese

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