G++ guru's please comment - Re: FW: pthread_create problem in Cygwin 1.1.8-2]

Dmitrii Pasechnik dima@cs.uu.nl
Tue Apr 10 08:25:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:

[...]
>> This is one of those situations where it looks like gcc can't be
>> released until a version of cygwin is released with the requisite
>> functionality.
>
>I don't understand: either cygwin support threading and gcc should be
>compiled with --enable-thread, or cygwin do not support threads, and then
>the program should not use them.
>
notice that gcc can also be compiled with --enable-thread=_lib_
- somthing that I wasn't able to get any documentation about...

Any clue how does this suppose to work?

>What seems to be the problem is that GCC thread-aware exception system is
>not properly PORTED to cygwin (if it cannot be compiled using current cygwin
>thread system). In this case one should either use gcc exception system OR
>cygwin threading system untill the cygwin GCC port has been fixed :-)
>

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Dmitrii Pasechnik
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