Re: [Boost-Users] Re: building threads lib with latest from CVS

From: Michael Hunley (mhunley_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-11 12:33:50

At 09:56 AM 2/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry, I forget that some acronyms aren't known by everyone.  TLS stands 
>for "thread local storage", also known as TSS or "thread specific storage".
>

Thanks for clearing that up.

>Testing and development.  I compile against 5 compilers, and with both 
>static and dynamic libraries this means compiling 10 variants at a minimum 
>(through in both debug and release and you have 20 variants), which is 
>time consuming.  But the real kicker is that boost::thread itself is going 
>to rely on TLS shortly, making it so you'll always need a DLL on the 
>Windows platforms.

Understand & sympathize.  What about people who want to bundle that part 
into their own DLL (which is largely what I'm doing)?  Does it hurt to 
leave the build in and doc it as untested?  Also, why would inclusion of 
TLS require it to be a DLL?  It would seem like including TLS could also be 
done in a static lib or am I being completely obtuse?

On an almost related note, I saw mention of a cooperative cancel policy 
from another post of yours.  Do you have any ETA on that and any info on 
what it will support vs what it won't support?  Is that info on the 
developer mailing list?

thanks again for all your info.
michael