On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 05:07:38PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > What do folks think about this change? It obviously should have no effect > whatsoever on builds not using glibc. I'm pretty confident that it won't > have any bad effect on a build using any extant version of glibc that had > pthreads at all. >
pthread_create is what has been referenced there up to GCC 3.4. So please see the rationale for changing it from pthread_create to pthread_cancel. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-01/msg01093.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg02517.html (and lots of gcc-patches mails in between the two). Jakub