How to allocate thread local storage?

Question

I have a variable in my function that is static, but I would like it to be static on a per thread basis.

How can I allocate the memory for my C++ class such that eac

Answer 1

Just a side note... MSVC++ supports declspec(thread) from VSC++2005

#if (_MSC_VER >= 1400)
  #ifndef thread_local     
    #define thread_local __declspec(thread)
  #endif
#endif

Main problem is(which is solved in boost::thread_specific_ptr) variables marked with it can't contain ctor or dtor.