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On 01/28/2016 06:57 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
It's currently 2016\. Perhaps it's time to remove all vestiges of these unsupported operating systems nobody's cared about since a year that started with a '1'?

We dropped support for Irix in 2.3\. We dropped support for Irix threads in 3.2\. All our supported platforms have Thread Local Storage (TLS) support. Maybe we can drop our 250-line portable TLS library from Python/thread.c?


/arry

p.s. Derpy code in Python/thread\_nt.h. It literally looks like this:
/\* use native Windows TLS functions \*/
#define Py\_HAVE\_NATIVE\_TLS

#ifdef Py\_HAVE\_NATIVE\_TLS
It seems this developer had the short-term memory of a goldfish.