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Re: system threads library
- To: Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu at slip dot net>
- Subject: Re: system threads library
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:26:54 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199810220530.WAA22806@slip.net>you write:
>
> Hi,
>
> The Objective-C testsuite fails when egcs is compiled with threads support
> because the test programs are not linked against the target's threads
> library. This may also cause problems for test programs that need to check
> thread-safe functionality, because the knowledge about the thread library
> to link against is not currently present.
>
> I would like to add support in configure for specifying for each system the
> name of the threads library. Can I start implementing this or is somebody
> else already working on it?
I would think that much of what you need (from a configure standpoint) is
already done by the changes to make exception handling thread safe. You
just need to change the objc code to use the information available from
configure.in.
jeff