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Re: PATCH: Allow non-arithmetic type for pthread_t

From: Loren James Rittle <rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>
To: bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz
Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:33:00 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: PATCH: Allow non-arithmetic type for pthread_t
References: <200203191627.g2JGRXk33208@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> <3C97FA3F.6060507@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
Reply-to: rittle at labs dot mot dot com

[I wrote:]
>> However, I would like to observe an outright portability bug in this
>> code with or without my proposed patch.

[Bryce wrote:]
> Indeed! This patch ought to fix that. I will check it in to mainline and 
> branch.

I can confirm that your patch works for me.  Thanks for reworking it.
I can offer no comment on the deeper issues of Hans' followup with one
exception:

[Hans' wrote:]
> This patch gets fairly ugly on Itanium...

For whatever it is worth, the Itanium doesn't even use the
SLOW_PTHREAD_SELF code path.  But I think I see the greater point of
describing the exact requirements across the locks.h API.

Regards,
Loren

References:
- PATCH: Allow non-arithmetic type for pthread_t
  - From: Loren James Rittle
- Re: PATCH: Allow non-arithmetic type for pthread_t
  - From: Bryce McKinlay

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