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Re: GSL 2.0 roadmap (one man's view)
At Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:48:32 -0600,
Gerard Jungman wrote:
> I would like to know how non-portable this is. I mean, I understand it
> is different for every platform, but if everybody has one then it
> only becomes an issue of configuring the variability.
>
> Roughly speaking, I would think that every thread implementation must
> have a notion of thread-local storage, so we're never required to
> provide something that doesn't exist...
I don't know enough about it to really say, but I haven't seen any
libraries following that approach -- returning an error code is the
usual way.