RFR: 8154715: Missing destructor and/or TLS clearing calls for terminating threads

[David M. Lloyd]

On 05/11/2016 04:00 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Coleen,
>
> On 11/05/2016 9:39 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> Hi David,
>> I am not a reviewer because I haven't read the whole thread and you have
>> enough reviewers, but is thread_native_entry duplicated on all the xnix
>> platforms?  Could this be a future cleanup?
>
> It is not exactly duplicated, but of course shares a great deal of
> commonality. The differences, if really needed, could be factored out. I
> would lump it in with the "great OS Posix refactoring" that never quite
> seems to happen (and the Solaris thr_* to pthread_* conversion that
> slowly happens).

It'll all be done just in time to start moving to C/C++11 threads.

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