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Re: 3.0.1 PATCH: Enable POSIX threads for IRIX 6
- To: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- Subject: Re: 3.0.1 PATCH: Enable POSIX threads for IRIX 6
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:43:53 -0700
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <15209.19951.589781.834153@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:56:15PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
>
> H.J., it would really have helped if you had fully stated why one needs
> your patch on IRIX 6. The explanation you gave (pthread_create is in libc)
> is not sufficient, since this is true on Solaris 2 as well. But (unlike
> IRIX 6), Solaris 2 has stub versions of *all* pthread functions in libc,
> not only a few of them as IRIX 6 has, and their error returns are
> reasonable to allow gthr-posix.h to work even when __gthr_active_p ()
> returns true without -lpthread being linked in.
>
Thanks. But I don't have Solaris. I only compared it with Linux.
H.J.