pthreads support

[Heribert Dahms]

Hi Mumit,

thanks for clarification! I've misinterpreted:

> Robert, The first "simple" testcase is gcc itself (configured with 
> --enable-threads=posix), since gcc uses a very small subset of pthreads
> functionality, and that's what I'm going to try as soon as I get a 
> chance to update my local tree.

and implied "gcc uses" as "gcc uses ... during compilation"
instead of "gcc supports"!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 27, 2001 01:11
> To:	Heribert Dahms
> Cc:	cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject:	RE: pthreads support
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

> The GCC compilers and drivers are not multi-threaded, so you get no
> benefit from that. The multi-threading interface in gcc is needed to
> support thread-safe C++ exceptions (Java may need it too, but I know
> next to nothing about the GCC Java front-end).