[fpc-devel] OO rewrite - technical questions

[Sven Barth]

Hi!

Am 20.07.2010 14:35, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 07/20/2010 02:07 PM, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>> It is probably reverse engineered guesswork but no official
>> documentation.
> Hmm. I think M$ wants us to do decent Applications and this includes
> multithreaded applications that use threadvars ("__thread" in C).
>
> Thus I can't believe they did not document how a compiler is supposed to
> handle threadvars.
>
> Also, I suppose there is a documentation for M$'s own C compiler and for
> GNU C how they do it on the appropriate arch, as same should be able to
> call ASM functions that define their own threadvars in a way compatible
> to the main program written in C. Maybe this is even true for Delphi.

For this purpose the TLS-API is to be used. The segment registers that 
point to the TLS array are undocumented and part of the internal 
bookkeeping of a NT system (and yes, Windows Vista and 7 are NT systems 
as well).
But because many applications rely on this undocumented TEB Microsoft 
doesn't dare to change anything regarding this. But please no fight 
about this topic; I've read the blog and the book of a Microsoft 
developer who reports to what lengths Microsoft went to ensure 
application compatibility (it's called "The old new thing" and I'm 
suggesting it to everyone who wants to know something about Windows 
internals in a humorous way).

Btw: if you are really curious you might take a look at the TLS 
implementation of ReactOS, which is an NT OS after all: 
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/kernel32/thread/tls.c?revision=45018&view=markup

Regards,
Sven