Re: cleaning up pthreads implementation - ABI problem

2001-11-21 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Peter Hunnisett wrote: > So our current pthreads mutex implementation works in Linux by the > skin of its teeth, becuase the first field in the mutex is reserved > and initialized to 0 (in both the static and pthread_mutex_init > cases), provided the version of LinuxThread

cleaning up pthreads implementation - ABI problem

2001-11-21 Thread Peter Hunnisett
Howdy, I was just looking at cleaning up the pthreads implementation but I don't think that it's possible to have our pthreads implementation without providing binary compatibility with the pthread implementation we're hijacking. The reason is that the mutex and rwlock objects are supposed to b