The __thread local storage is supported on OSX since 10.7 (Lion),
released in 2012. For example, see:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.3439.
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using namespace std;
using namespace lyx::support;
-// gcc < 4.8.0 and msvc < 2015 do not support C++11 thread_local
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 8
+// OSX clang, gcc < 4.8.0, and msvc < 2015 do not support C++11 thread_local
+#if defined(__APPLE__) || (defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 8)
#define THREAD_LOCAL_STATIC static __thread
#elif defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER < 1900)
#define THREAD_LOCAL_STATIC static __declspec(thread)