Re: support for multithread-safe libraries

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> dnl Survey of platforms:
> dnl
> dnl Platform          Available   Compiler    Supports   test-lock
> dnl                   flavours    option      weak       result
> dnl ---------------   ---------   ---------   --------   ---------
> dnl Linux 2.4/glibc   posix       -lpthread   Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl GNU Hurd/glibc    posix
> dnl
> dnl FreeBSD 5         posix       -lc_r
> dnl                   posix       -lthr
> dnl                   posix       -lpthread
> dnl
> dnl FreeBSD 4.0,4.10  posix       -lc_r       Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl NetBSD 1.6        --
> dnl
> dnl OpenBSD 3.4       posix       -lpthread   Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl MacOS X 10.[123]  posix       -lpthread   Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl Solaris 7,8,9     posix       -lpthread   Y          Sol 7,8: 0.0; Sol 9: 
> OK
> dnl                   solaris     -lthread    Y          Sol 7,8: 0.0; Sol 9: 
> OK
> dnl
> dnl HP-UX 11          posix       -lpthread   Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl IRIX 6.5          posix       -lpthread   Y          0.5
> dnl
> dnl AIX 4.3,5.1       posix       -lpthread   N          AIX 4: 0.5; AIX 5: OK
> dnl
> dnl OSF/1 4.0,5.1     posix       -pthread (cc) Y        OK
> dnl                               -lpthread (gcc)
> dnl
> dnl Cygwin            posix       -lpthread   Y          OK
> dnl
> dnl Any of the above  pth         -lpth                  0.0
> dnl
> dnl Mingw             win32                   N          OK
> dnl
> dnl BeOS 5            --
> dnl
> dnl The test-lock result shows what happens if in test-lock.c EXPLICIT_YIELD 
> is
> dnl turned off:
> dnl   OK if all three tests terminate OK,
> dnl   0.5 if the first test terminates OK but the second one loops endlessly,
> dnl   0.0 if the first test already loops endlessly.
> ===============================================================================

Does it make sens to add the compiler you tested with?

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albert chin (address@hidden)