Hi,

Does taking the address of a TLS variable and passing it to other 
threads have defined semantics? I would assume it results in a pointer 
to the thread's instance of the TLS variable (which makes sense), but is 
passing it to other threads OK? Does the language guarantee this?

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Alex Rønne Petersen
alex@lycus.org
http://lycus.org

On 06/23/2012 09:51 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does taking the address of a TLS variable and passing it to other
> threads have defined semantics? I would assume it results in a pointer
> to the thread's instance of the TLS variable (which makes sense),


I'd assume that it results in a pointer to the original thread's TLS 
variable, because threads usually share the physical address space.

> but is passing it to other threads OK?

I think you could pass a T* function() thunk that takes the respective 
TLS variable's address instead, if that makes sense.

> Does the language guarantee this?
>

No, it is probably implementation/architecture dependent.