How to initialize thread local variable in c++? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You need to use lazy initialization.

myClass
{
public:

  static __thread int64_t m_minInt;
  static __thread bool m_minIntInitialized;

  static int64_t getMinInt();
};
__thread int64_t myClass::m_minInt;
__thread bool myClass::m_minIntInitialized;


int64_t myClass::getMinInt()
{
  if (!m_minIntInitialized)  // note - this is (due to __thread) threadsafe
  {
    m_minIntInitialized = true;
    m_minInt = 100;
  }

  return m_minInt;
}

m_minIntInitialized is guaranteed to be zero.

In most cases (ELF specification) it is placed to .tbss section, which is zero-initialized.

For C++ - http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/initialization

For all other non-local static and thread-local variables, Zero initialization takes place. In practice, variables that are going to be zero-initialized are placed in the .bss segment of the program image, which occupies no space on disk, and is zeroed out by the OS when loading the program.