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Re: Make -pthread the generic Posix-threads option for gcc (was: Re: cc1plus errors)
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:39:13PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:04:21PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > | Well, GNU/Linux has no (more so) native compiler, and it has the
> > | largest installed base (he says, blatantly ignoring to check up
> > | on that), so I think offering "-pthread" as the generic gcc
> > | option to enable Posix-threads would be useful.
> >
> > I'm highly supportive of that effort -- it surely would simplify
> > things.
>
> At this point, I think anything would help. :-) Someone told me Linux
> was about to gain at least one more major threading library (linux-threads
> or some such from IBM).
There's a project denominated Next Generation POSIX Threads at IBM
(http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads/)
intended to replace linux-threads.
Kurt
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