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Re: b20.1 (egcs-1.1.1): making winsup problem
- To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: b20.1 (egcs-1.1.1): making winsup problem
- From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:30:44 -0600
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Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> I think you are mixing two different packages. The pthreads package that is
> on sourceware is in no way related to cygwin.
>
> When you compile with --enable-threads you get an experimental thread-safe
> cygwin1.dll which contains some pthread_* functions.
Thanks for clearing that up. I should've looked at the latest snapshot
first.
I'm trying to make C++ exceptions thread safe under cygwin, and looks
like cygwin itself will have enough that we won't need an external
pthreads library for this particular purpose.
Regards,
Mumit