Re[2]: [boost] Re: Windows MSVC thread exit handler for staticly linkedBoost.Thread

From: Roland (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-01 15:47:31

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 22:31:22 +0200 Bronek Kozicki <brok_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>  However, you may define this symbol ("extern "C" const DWORD 
> _tls_used[6]; const DWORD _tls_used[6] = ...") yourself in executable 
> (but not in .tls section) and if you build this symbol right way (as 
> demonstrated by Holger and specified in section 6.7.1 of PE/COFF 
> specification) your callback procedure will be recognized by operating 
> system and called at the right time. I think that it does not conform to 
> PE/COFF specification (section 6.7 explicitly specify section name .tls) 
> but it works, even on MSVC6 (but not under MinGW, hmmm ...).

Just tried this at home. My MSVC 6.0 compiler does not do the trick. :-(
Might it be, that running on W2K is the problem?

Roland