Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps

[Craig Hawco]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:

>
> Using -pthread will prevent linking to libc and only link to
> libc_r.  After the change I just committed, you need to link
> to both libc_r and libc (in that order), just like you would
> for a threaded application on just about any other OS (only
> ours is called libc_r instead of libpthread).

Why not just call it libpthread for the sake of consistancy with other
OSes? I understand why it was called libc_r, but it no longer contains the
libc functionality. I know we like being nonconformist, but sometimes
consistancy is a Good Thing.

--Craig



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