<<On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:40:22 -0800 (PST), John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> FreeBSD violates POSIX in this respect. The 1003.1 standard > (section 2.5) requires pthread_t to be an arithmetic type. We are > non-compliant in the same way for almost all of the primary > thread-related types: Not so (with respect to those other types). XBD page 367: # All of the types shall be defined as arithmetic types of an # appropriate length, with the following exceptions: # # key_t # pthread_attr_t # pthread_barrier_t # pthread_barrierattr_t # pthread_cond_t # pthread_condattr_t # pthread_key_t # pthread_mutex_t # pthread_mutexattr_t # pthread_once_t # pthread_rwlock_t # pthread_rwlockattr_t # pthread_spinlock_t # trace_attr_t # trace_event_id_t # trace_event_set_t # trace_id_t SSWG-RT got a bit carried away with pthread_t, I think, because they define a comparison operation (pthread_equal()) even though such an operation is never necessary on arithmetic types (the `=' operator can be used for that purpose). We could define pthread_t as __intptr_t without making significant changes to the implementation. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
