Re: [PATCH] Fixing srfi-18.test when building on OS X with clang

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Chris K. Jester-Young" <address@hidden> skribis:

> The basic purpose of the patch is to disable thread-local storage when
> building on OS X. This is probably clang-specific, but I don't have
> enough autotools-fu to check for that. In any case, when using TLS, the
> value of (current-thread) is not always correctly maintained, which
> then causes srfi-18.test to fail.

I could try to come up with an Autoconf test for ‘__thread’, but what’s
the exact problem?  Is it that TLS in general doesn’t work (that sounds
unlikely)?  Or is it that TLS is inaccessible from a pthread_atexit
handler or something like that?

Thanks,
Ludo’.