Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as tls to store extra info

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > > It does support pthread_get/setspecific, but it didn't support
> > > something
> > > else so the qemu-tls.h variant that used pthread_get/setspecific
> > > didn't
> > > work either.
> > >
> > > And it doesn't support sigaltstack in threads, so it's the only
> > > platform
> > > where the gthread-based coroutines are used.  Those are buggy
> > > because
> > > the coroutines tend to get random signal masks.
> > 
> > I'd love to know what that something else is.
> 
> I think it is constructor priorities.  Probably not needed if I
> look at the code again with a fresh mind. :)
> 
> But yes

... now that real pthreads are supported in OpenBSD it's a wholly
different story, and we should simply (in 1.4) stop supporting older
versions.  (Sincere) congratulations to the OpenBSD devs!

Paolo