Re: Compiling EBX on win32

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Elliott Slaughter
<elliottslaughter <at> gmail.com> wrote:

>> After getting rid of :sb-thread and :x86-ebx-threads, the second patch compiles
>> fine.  Sorry about all the list noise.  Is sbcl moving to ebx-threads for linux
>> and windows?
>
> Has anyone thought any more about this? I don't have the CVS write
> access needed to commit this patch, and there hasn't been much
> discussion about either committing the patch or any complaints about
> the patch... Are we waiting for something, or all the committers just
> busy at the moment?

I looked at merging it a month ago, or so, but didn't manage to review
it in the time I had available at that point. Hopefully I can get back
to it sooner than later.

At any rate, there is little point to use EBX for thread-local storage
on Linux, except as a build-option for debugging the patch.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

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