RE: Fast thread-local storage for OpenGL drivers

[Gareth Hughes]

Alexandre Julliard [mailto:[e-mail]] wrote:
> There are no more guarantees with the GDI area than with anything
> else. Microsoft is free to change that whenever they feel like it.
>
> Negative offsets could work, but they would waste a full page of
> memory for each thread since the TEB has to be page-aligned. I'd
> stronly recommend finding a way to use the glibc threading support
> instead.

As I keep saying, we need a solution that works on platforms that don't
support __thread.