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  69. <h3 class="section">6.64 Thread-Local Storage</h3>
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  73. <p>Thread-local storage (<acronym>TLS</acronym>) is a mechanism by which variables
  74. are allocated such that there is one instance of the variable per extant
  75. thread. The runtime model GCC uses to implement this originates
  76. in the IA-64 processor-specific ABI, but has since been migrated
  77. to other processors as well. It requires significant support from
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  111. <p>See <a href="https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf">ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage</a> for a detailed explanation of
  112. the four thread-local storage addressing models, and how the runtime
  113. is expected to function.
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