GA

Enables faster access to certain thread-local storage (TLS) variables.

IDE Equivalent

Windows: Optimization > Optimize for Windows Applications

Linux: None

Mac OS X: None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® 64 architectures

Syntax

Linux and Mac OS X:

None

Windows:

/GA

Arguments

None

Default

OFF	Default access to TLS variables is in effect.

Description

This option enables faster access to certain thread-local storage (TLS) variables. When you compile your main executable (.EXE) program with this option, it allows faster access to TLS variables declared with the __declspec(thread) specification.

Note that if you use this option to compile .DLLs, you may get program errors.

Alternate Options

None