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+/*
+ * Written by Josh Dybnis and released to the public domain, as explained at
+ * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
+ *
+ * A platform independant wrapper around thread-local storage. On platforms that don't support
+ * __thread variables (e.g. Mac OS X), we have to use the pthreads library for thread-local storage
+ */
+#ifndef TLS_H
+#define TLS_H
+
+#ifdef __ELF__ // use gcc thread-local storage (i.e. __thread variables)
+#define DECLARE_THREAD_LOCAL (name, type) type name
+#define INIT_THREAD_LOCAL (name, value) name = value
+#define SET_THREAD_LOCAL (name, value) name = value
+#define LOCALIZE_THREAD_LOCAL(name, type)
+
+#else//!__ELF__
+
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+#define DECLARE_THREAD_LOCAL(name, type) pthread_key_t name##_KEY
+
+#define INIT_THREAD_LOCAL(name) \
+ do { \
+ if (pthread_key_create(&name##_KEY, NULL) != 0) { assert(FALSE); } \
+ } while (0)
+
+#define SET_THREAD_LOCAL(name, value) pthread_setspecific(name##_KEY, (void *)(size_t)value);
+
+#define LOCALIZE_THREAD_LOCAL(name, type) type name = (type)(size_t)pthread_getspecific(name##_KEY)
+
+#endif//__ELF__
+#endif//TLS_H