On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:39:24 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > : In fact, impossible :-)
 > 
 > It's not, actually.  There are implementations out there that use
 > thread-local data for this purpose.

Well.. if you interpret the standard a certain way, "impossible".  :-)

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