[Mingw-w64-public] v4.0.0 released

2015-03-14 Thread JonY
Hello all, v4.0.0 is finally out! Some highlights include: * winstorecompat - Used to achieve Windows Store compatibility, as used by VLC (Thanks to the VLC team). * 32bit ARM thumb software math (Thanks to André Hentschel!). * New ftw() support for gcc-5.x support. * Experimental printf changes

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Native Win32 std::thread

2015-03-14 Thread K. Frank
Hello Marco (and Ruben & Friends)! On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Marco Costalba wrote: > I am one of the developer of a chess engine called Stockfish: > > https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish > > A chess engine is a high performance piece of multi-thread software, where > even a smal

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Native Win32 std::thread

2015-03-14 Thread Adrien Nader
Hi, To add a bit to Ruben's answer. Winpthreads is a library designed to provide pthread's API and its typical ABI since many software assume pthread_t is an integer (it's the case on Linux and many other OSes). Pthreads-win32 has a different ABI where pthread_t is a struct instead (as far as I re