Hello K. Frank, First, I appreachiate your effort here and indeed did we made up plans to solve this issues for mingw-w64. But I am sure this discussion is of some worth to mingw.org, too.
2010/10/13 K. Frank <[email protected]>: > I haven't the faintest idea about how to integrate this stuff with the mingw > proper. One issue (among many) is that I am ill equipped to test on anything > other than 64-bit windows 7. Because my implementation works with mingw32 > and mingw-w64 with essentially no differences, and because the gnu sources > seem to have support for mingw -- for example, the gnu sources contain > gthr-win32.h: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/config/i386/gthr-win32.c The implementation in gcc in gthr-win32.h (and there is the .c file in /config/i386/gthr-win32.c) in gcc's source tree are implemented for i486 and newer CPU version. And this API provides just a limited set of threading API. For gcc it is very essential that its code supports older Windows Operating Systems, too. Also you need to make papers to FSF before posting there (but this is just a side-note and easy to solve). > perhaps it makes sense to integrate this directly into the gnu sources, > rather than as a patch specific to mingw. Any thoughts or guidance on > this would be appreciated. > > The gnu sources have a test suite for std::thread: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/testsuite/30_threads/ Well, this is the gcc testsuite and it gets regular ran by many people. NightStrike even post its results regulary to gcc's ML. > I've been running some of these manually, but it's rather tedious. It looks > like those tests are designed to be run by some automated testing framework > that I don't have (and don't particularly desire to set up). Is there some > way I can get help testing on other platforms, and with the automated test > suite? See the how-to on gcc's Wiki about testsuite. > I am not sure of the best way to handle copyrights and licensing. What's the > conventional wisdom on how to handle this, both for new files and for modified > files? Well, license is here the "jumping point". The pthread-win32 project is LGPL, which isn't bad, but has some unwanted side-effects to its users, as it disallows the use of static libraries in none-GPLed code As we - and I assume it is the same for mingw.org - are having the goal to provide the base runtime so, that every user can use it without any implication due license, we decised to start a new project "winpthread" (to be found on our experimental repository tree) having a more *free* license, which we will integrate into our base runtime after tests are done. When we have achieved this, I plan to change gthr-win32 in gcc so, that it can use the pthread layer for Windows targets - if available. > Thanks for any help and advice. > > > K. Frank Best regards, Kai -- | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste | (='.'=) Bunny into your signature to help | (")_(") him gain world domination ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
