Yes, but I'd need to patch GCC as well. The bureaucracies are regarding the
Free Software Foundation Copyright claims on it, they need a copyright
transfer or waiver.

Em seg, 8 de jun de 2015 às 09:52, Yaron Keren <yaron.ke...@gmail.com>
escreveu:

> 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
>>
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