The Old New Thing

Consequences of using variables declared __declspec(thread)

November 22, 2010 Nov 22, 2010 11/22/10

Raymond Chen

As a prerequisite, I am going to assume that you understand how TLS works, and in particular how variables work. There's a quite thorough treatise on the subject by Ken Johnson (better known as Skywing), who comments quite frequently on this site. The series starts here and continues for a total of 8 installments, ending here. That last ...