Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Bruce Visscher
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 10:43 am

Sorry to catch the tail end of this but if a compiler doesn't support
"__thread" would volatile suffice in some/most/any cases?

This issue happens to have caught my attention recently.  I think I
just observed a situation where essentially this code fails on VMS
under CXX but without either __thread or volatile.

Sadly, I believe CXX has for a long time implemented something like
what I've read in this thread that GCC 4.0 does.  I never took
advantage of this because I was afraid it wouldn't be portable.

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