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Subject: Re: Debugging Emacs with threads
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> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: tom@tromey.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:04:20 +0100
> 
> On Dez 11 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> >> Why isn't current_thread a thread-local variable?
> >
> > I don't know.  Is that sufficiently portable for us to use?
> 
> If __thread isn't available it can simulated with pthread_getspecific.

Btw, there are several places in thread.c which compare the value of
current_thread with some other value.  I guess these will have to be
reviewed if current_thread is going to be in TLS.

Tom, any comments?

Thanks.