On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:56:36PM +0800, David Zhang wrote: >Hello, everyone. I'm using Cygwin 1.7.5-1 on Windows XP for some >multithread programming using Pthreads. > >I wonder if the type "pthread_spinlock_t" is supported since when I >tried to compile a C code that used "pthread_spinlock_t", GCC said: > >error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pthread_spinlock_t' > >or > >error: 'pthread_spinlock_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
>Then I open the file 'pthread.h' in the usr/include folder. It seems >that there isn't any function definitions relating to spinlock like >pthread_spin_init, pthread_spin_lock, etc. So does it means that >'pthread_spinlock_t' is not supported in Cygwin 1.7.5-1? Yes. If you don't see it in /usr/include that does mean it isn't implemented. >If it doesn't for now, is there any plan for Cygwin to support it? >Thx! There are no plans to implement it. Sorry. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
