Reuben Thomas asked:
> I'm interested in why you suspect MSYS would be worse than mingw? Is it
> because it is not as widely used as mingw
That is one factor. The other one is that they welcome changes that are
buggy in the long run, such as
- in MSYS1, the argv[] processing in the middle of the
On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 01:05, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> We have documented hundreds of deficiencies of mingw [1] w.r.t. the POSIX
> standard. MSYS is surely worse, not better, than mingw. I recommend to use
> the respective modules, for those POSIX APIs that you use.
>
I'm happy to decide that on a
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > In the end I tried something a bit different, which was to reduce the
> > > number of gnulib modules I was using, as for the code I'm writing it
> > > seemed
> > > reasonable to assume C99 and POSIX.1-2008.
> >
> > ?? That makes no sense to me. Either you want to assume PO
On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 22:34, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > It's not really that I'm doing anything: gnulib seems to detect MSYS as
> > being a POSIX platform.
>
> Not really; something in the configure step (which you haven't shown)
> made it "detect" some POSIX threads facility.
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> It's not really that I'm doing anything: gnulib seems to detect MSYS as
> being a POSIX platform.
Not really; something in the configure step (which you haven't shown)
made it "detect" some POSIX threads facility.
> In the end I tried something a bit different, which was to
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 at 12:44, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > on MSYS it goes wrong
> > ...
> > setlocale_null_with_lock (category=category@entry=0, buf=buf@entry
> =0xbd80
> > "", bufsize=bufsize@entry=3221) at setlocale_null.c:228
> > 228 if (pthread_in_use())
> > (gdb)
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> on MSYS it goes wrong
> ...
> setlocale_null_with_lock (category=category@entry=0, buf=buf@entry=0xbd80
> "", bufsize=bufsize@entry=3221) at setlocale_null.c:228
> 228 if (pthread_in_use())
> (gdb)
> 230 pthread_mutex_t *lock = gl_get_setlocale_null_lock (
It works fine on mingw32 and mingw64, but on MSYS it goes wrong when
calling pthread_mutex_lock. In the following gdb session, the first line is
from my code; the rest is tracing through gnulib code.
(gdb) n
171 char *old_locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
(gdb) s
rpl_setlocale (category=0,
