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RE: pthread_t and strict standards compliance
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:09:34 +1000
- Subject: RE: pthread_t and strict standards compliance
> -----Original Message-----
> From: René Møller Fonseca [mailto:fonseca@mip.sdu.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:06 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: pthread_t and strict standards compliance
>
>
> Hi Heribert,
>
> Of course, you are right. But I'm interested in the most correct
> implementation of the standard(s) and that implies following the very
> word of the standard in question. This policy will generally
> reduce the
> work required when the standard is revised. Something that
> seems not to
> be a problem may turn out to be a big one when the standard
> is revised
> and things MUST BE kept backwards-compatible.
Right. Well any change will _have_ to occur on a cygwin major API boundary - ie from 1.3 to 1.5. That doesn't seem to be in the works yet... If you are interested in contributing a patch, I'll happily review it.
Rob
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