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+//===-- main.cpp ------------------------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
+//
+// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
+// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+// This file deliberately uses low level linux-specific API for thread creation because:
+// - instruction-stepping over thread creation using higher-level functions was very slow
+// - it was also unreliable due to single-stepping bugs unrelated to this test
+// - some threading libraries do not create or destroy threads when we would expect them to
+
+#include <sched.h>
+
+#include <atomic>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+enum { STACK_SIZE = 0x2000 };
+
+static uint8_t child_stack[STACK_SIZE];
+
+pid_t child_tid;
+
+std::atomic<bool> flag(false);
+
+int thread_main(void *)
+{
+    while (! flag) // Make sure the thread does not exit prematurely
+        ;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int main ()
+{
+    int ret = clone(thread_main,
+            child_stack + STACK_SIZE/2, // Don't care whether the stack grows up or down,
+                                        // just point to the middle
+            CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_FS | CLONE_PARENT_SETTID |
+            CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_SYSVSEM | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM,
+            nullptr, // thread_main argument
+            &child_tid);
+
+    if (ret == -1)
+    {
+        perror("clone");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    flag = true;
+
+    return 0;
+}