Re: Committing Resources to Win32

> I'm trying to understand this. Is it that the existing code references
> static data in so many places that it impractical to move all
> that into a structures?

More like "unjustifiable for a single port" than impractical.


> You could put a structure high up on the stack of each thread and pass
> down a pointer to it, or use a hash on thread id to reference
> the data.

The second approach is more or less what I'm doing myself on a private port.
However, the code for this simply would not integrate cleanly with the
existing source base. What would is use of the __declspec(thread) directive,
which could be macro'd into the definition of each global var under Win32.
This, with some other related changes, would bring a Win32 multi-threaded
port into existence in short order, however is not (yet) supported under the
MingW environment.

Cheers,
Claudio

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