[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | gnutls_rnd manage memory per-thread (!1647)

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Zoltán Fridrich commented on a discussion on lib/random.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1647#note_1113743433

>  #endif
>  
>  /* Per thread context of random generator, and a flag to indicate initialization */
> -static _Thread_local void *gnutls_rnd_ctx;
> -static _Thread_local unsigned rnd_initialized = 0;
> +gl_tls_key_t ctx_key;
> +_Thread_local unsigned rnd_initialized = 0;

This kind of blew my mind right now. I am pretty sure that I read it in a book at some point and I did not just made it up. Very good to know, thank you. I should definitely put them as static then.

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