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Re: Pthreads for gnu-win32?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Pthreads for gnu-win32?
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 02:11:22 +1000 (EST)
- References: <9710161332.ZM9552@xvn.ds.boeing.com>
You write:
> Anyone know of a port of pthreads for gnu-win32 or if gnu-win32
>supports posix threads?
As far as I know, gnu-win32 does not support threads; I'm pretty sure that
the C library it uses, `newlib', is not thread-safe.
It is a pity that Cygnus didn't use the GNU C library, which supports
threads, and (from what I have heard) is generally better than newlib.
I believe the main motivation for using newlib was copyright issues.
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