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RE: What difference "--enable-threads=posix" can make
- From: "Rupert Wood" <me at rupey dot net>
- To: "'Muhammad Ali'" <Muhammad dot Ali at ebp dot de>
- Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:13:54 +0100
- Subject: RE: What difference "--enable-threads=posix" can make
Muhammad Ali wrote:
> I am building gnu 3.1 on mips-sgi-irix-6.5. I would like to know
> what the difference can be if i use the flag
> "--enable-threads=posix" while running configure for making gnu. And
> if I do not use it what is the difference. Can it make some built in
> features of C++ like streams and string classes thread unsafe. If I
> do not use this.
Exactly that: it defines which thread mechanisms form the 'gthreads'
threading abstraction which is, in turn, used by the C++ and Objective-C
run-time libraries and the central exception handling mechanism in
libgcc (used for C++ and Java at least).
Rup.