Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 10:27 am


David Schwartz wrote:
[...]
>     Thread-local objects are not supposed to be shared. 

Sez who?

>                                                         As for it breaking
> POSIX, POSIX doesn't say what the __thread specifier should do, so nothing
> it could do would violate POSIX. 

Under C/POSIX different objects just can't have the same address.
And threads share the entire address space. By definition. 

regards,
alexander.

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