On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, K. Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gaby! > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, K. Frank <[email protected]> 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 <thread>), all, I guess, with a gcc build built using >>> --enable-threads=posix, so what then does --enable-threads=win32 >>> actually do? >> >> See TDM's build (which is --enable-threads=win32) > > I've used a couple of TDM's builds in the past (but I'm not sure I > ever used it with threading, unless maybe a few simple test > programs with Qt's QThread, and such). But I haven't noticed > any difference (other than, I would suspect, pthreads not working). > > So what does --enable-threads=win32 vs. --enable-threads=posix > actually do? > >> -- Gaby > > Thanks. > > > K. Frank
win32 is the MS Win32 threading model. If that is the default of the compiler, I have a guarantee that I can mix with Win32 threading semantics; otherwise, I don't. Multithreading programming is sufficiently complicated that we don't want to make confuse them just on anedoctical trial. See also http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgcc/config/i386/gthr-win32.h?view=markup http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgcc/config/i386/gthr-win32.c?revision=184997&view=markup -- Gaby ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
