llvm dev - Dec 2014 - [LLVMdev] why 'const' void * return for ThreadLocalImpl::getInstance()?

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but naively, this makes it kind
of awkward to have mutable thread local state...
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I think you are supposed to use ThreadLocal::get in cases where you want a
pointer to mutable data:
http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1sys_1_1ThreadLocal.html#a66c83dcd38d9048a4f95255e44f13a0c

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Andy Ayers <andya at microsoft.com>
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>  I’m probably missing something obvious here, but naively, this makes it
> kind of awkward to have mutable thread local state…
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Yeah, I was using that -- I have, more or less,

struct S {...};
llvm::sys::ThreadLocal<S> TLS;
S * s = TLS.get();

The static_cast in ThreadLocal::get is where the compiler gripes…. Unable to
convert from ‘const void *’ to ‘S *’.

From: David Majnemer [mailto:david.majnemer at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:39 PM
To: Andy Ayers
Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] why 'const' void * return for
ThreadLocalImpl::getInstance()?

I think you are supposed to use ThreadLocal::get in cases where you want a
pointer to mutable data:
http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1sys_1_1ThreadLocal.html#a66c83dcd38d9048a4f95255e44f13a0c

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Andy Ayers <andya at
microsoft.com<mailto:andya at microsoft.com>> wrote:
I’m probably missing something obvious here, but naively, this makes it kind of
awkward to have mutable thread local state…

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