This is a great idea. Regarding the license, isn't mingw-w64 released under a public domain or CC0 license?
http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/mingw-w64-public/thread/5238f91b.7010...@tdragon.net/ 2015-06-08 15:41 GMT+03:00 Alexandre Pereira Nunes < alexandre.nu...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I read in the mailing list archives that some work was done on the area of > implementing native TLS support and I'm interested in continuing it, in > case nobody is currently on it. > > My initial goal would be to have an implementation that would be both > thread-model agnostic (i.e. be both sufficient and compatible with current > posix & win32 gcc thread models), leveraging the current dependency on > gthreads (and the consequent libpthread one in case of the posix thread > model). > > For that I thought about patching gcc to generate native TLS compatible > with win32/msvc semantics. Or, if that's too hard, at least provide a > better emulation (perhaps using TlsAlloc() & friends), preferably one that > doesn't rely on mutexes. But I don't want to go to deep without information > from those who attempted something like that in the past. > > I'm currently awaiting for feedback from fsf on my papers, but a small > amount of work (perhaps for early testing) can be early released > accordingly to fsf statements in the form of small patches, should that be > needed / convenient. > > A further goal would be to investigate this report and fix it if possible > (and if not fixed as a side effect of the planned ork): > https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/bugs/445/ > > Cheers, > > Alexandre > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > >
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