b20.1 (egcs-1.1.1): making winsup problem

Mumit Khan khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU
Thu Feb 18 07:32:00 GMT 1999


Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> I think you are mixing two different packages.  The pthreads package that is
> on sourceware is in no way related to cygwin.
> 
> When you compile with --enable-threads you get an experimental thread-safe
> cygwin1.dll which contains some pthread_* functions.

Thanks for clearing that up. I should've looked at the latest snapshot
first.

I'm trying to make C++ exceptions thread safe under cygwin, and looks
like cygwin itself will have enough that we won't need an external 
pthreads library for this particular purpose.

Regards,
Mumit



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