On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 9 May 2012 20:49, Kai Tietz wrote:
>>
>> The issue about critical-sections and gthread (and also pthread) API
>> is, that not all locking-kinds can be modelled by it. The difference
>> on Windows for it is, that a critical section object
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, K. Frank wrote:
> Hi Gaby!
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis
> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, K. Frank wrote:
>>
>>> However, as noted in my previous post, I have happily done some
>>> (limit
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
wrote:
> That said, a new threading model is great, but essentially unusable on
> Windows XP. Which today might be a problem for people distributing binaries.
> They'll have to build two versions (as I've said before) and confuse their
> users even
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, K. Frank wrote:
> However, as noted in my previous post, I have happily done some
> (limited) windows-api threading programming with Ruben's build
> (and also did the windows-api threading programming necessary
> to implement ), all, I guess, with a gcc build built
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, K. Frank wrote:
> Conversely, if you want to mix with pthreads, then a
> pthreads implementation for makes sense.
except that on Windows, programmers don't typically
expect posix functions. If you want posix emulation on Windows,
the general expectation is tha
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM, K. Frank wrote:
> Ah, okay. I don't use --enable-threads=win32 or really know what
> it is.
It is the default threading model for mingw-64 compilers -- e.g.
gcc built by TDM, etc.
-- Gaby
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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM, K. Frank wrote:
> Please, let's have mingw-w64 (and mingw) users chime in. Do folks
> prefer one approach (native vs. pthreads) to implementing
> to the other? Is there enough interest in both approaches that it
> makes sense to take away manpower from other is
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 7 May 2012 18:35, K. Frank wrote:
>> Hello Ruben and Gabriel!
>
> N.B. I'm not on the mingw lists, so please keep me CC'd if you want
> responses or any help from me in enhancing libstdc++ to work better on
> Windows.
>
>
>> And my P.S.:
Including the mingw64 project about this.
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> For GCC 4.7 I enabled most of (without timed mutexes) on Mac
> OS X by making the _GLIBCXX_HAS_GTHREADS macro more fine-grained. I
> think we could quite easily do the same again for the win32 thr
