Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as tls to store extra info

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 October 2012 13:00, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> It does support pthread_get/setspecific, but it didn't support something
> else so the qemu-tls.h variant that used pthread_get/setspecific didn't
> work either.
>
> And it doesn't support sigaltstack in threads, so it's the only platform
> where the gthread-based coroutines are used.  Those are buggy because
> the coroutines tend to get random signal masks.

MacOS uses the gthread version too. In fact anything that doesn't
doesn't use makecontext will use gthread -- you won't get the
sigaltstack version unless you explicitly ask configure for it.

[insert usual rant here about what a bad idea coroutines are]

-- PMM