ok, thread_local is a macro that implements LocalKey, but, whats it???

On Linux it would use the TLS support of the ELF ABI. Basically you have a .tdata section whose content gets copied into the thread local storage area for each thread and then when trying to access the TLS, you call __tls_get_addr with the id of the current DSO (an executable or shared library) and …

LocalKey doc says: This key uses the fastest possible implementation available to it for the target platform. So which platform are you interested in? Conceptually you can think of each thread local variable as a map from thread ID to whatever data you supply, that can be accessed for the curre…

How does thread_local! macro work?

asdasdkalksdjklas February 14, 2025, 10:11pm 3

can u explain me using the linux platform??

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How does thread_local! macro work?

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