How does a portable Thread Specific Storage Mechanism's Naming Scheme Generate Thread Relative Uniqu

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Published on 2010-04-13T09:29:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 9:33 UTC
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A portable thread specific storage reference/identity mechanism, of which boost/thread/tss.hpp is an instance, needs a way to generate a unique keys for itself. This key is unique in the scope of a thread, and is subsequently used to retrieve the object it references. This mechanism is used in code written in a thread neutral manner.

Since boost is a portable example of this concept, how specifically does such a mechanism work ?

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