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Re: [patch] make 'pthreads' always an alias for 'posix'
On Oct 7, 2003, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:
>> DJ, Alex, opinions? Is there something I'm missing?
> It would be better to ask the people maintaining the thread files.
> They may be in the process of deprecating the "pthreads" name, so I'd
> get their OK first. Since there is no separate gthr-pthreads, I see
> no *syntactical* reason not to apply your patch, but note that it will
> allow --enable-threads=pthreads on platforms that previously didn't
> allow it.
And without a corresponding change in libstdc++ (and maybe libjava and
libobjc, I don't recall whether they actually care about the thread
model?), things might break.
I won't oppose to such a change if it's done wherever the thread model
is chosen.
But then, we might be better off simply changing the command line, or
outright rejecting it, in the top-level configure...
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