This is the the minimal change introduced in D88599 to unblock the controversial change and discussion of proper separation between thread from thread id which will continue in D88599.
This patch will address the differences of definition of pthread_t on z/OS vs. Linux and other OS. Main trick to make the code work on z/OS relies on redefining libcpp_thread_id type and _LIBCPP_NULL_THREAD macro. This is necessary to separate initialization of libcxx_thread_id from the one of __libcxx_thread_t;
Why don't we always define it that way? This is valid also on other platforms, no?