Does Orange C support __declspec(thread) or __thread?

[ghost]

This is the first time I see them in C source code, too. From the comment, I know __declspec(thread) is for MSVC and __thread is for GCC/Clang.

[GitMensch]

@LADSoft can you please reopen and answer the question? I guess (haven't checked in depth) that additional to those two the __tread_local C11 attribute would be interesting and all possibly behave identical.

[LADSoft]

bearing in mind I don't have extensive knowledge of how this is done in other compilers, I did some research.

__declspec(thread) does the same thing as _Thread_Local for windows platforms. __thread the same as _Thread_Local for gcc. Gcc actually prefers you use _Thread_Local I imagine as __thread seems to predate the C11 standard....

The implementations seem different in windows compilers than gcc I think but from what I can tell the results would be the same for all three independent of platform.

Is there a need for me to add the aliases?

[GitMensch]

The declspec would definitely be needed for a win32 compiler, the thread_local (all lower case, needs threads.h be included) should be available, too - asking support for the GCC extension (like clang did) seems reasonable.