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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 12:47:31 -0500
From: John Fortin <fortinj AT ibm DOT net>
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT nanotech DOT wisc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: pthreads status? 
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Mumit Khan wrote:

> John Fortin <fortinj AT ibm DOT net> writes:
> >
> > I seem to recall from the pthreads-win32 webpage that win95/98 are not
> > supported because
> > of the following...  ( from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/ )
> >      The latter two need to be built on Win NT before they will be able to
> > link applications which use
> >      pthreads-win32. This is because the Win95 kernel32.dll does not include
> > the functions _beginthreadex and
> >      _endthreadex.
>
> Should be fixed by now ... the *threadex functions are exported by MSVCRT
> DLL, not CRTDLL. Either way, not usable by Cygwin.
>

    However, maybe we can borrow some of the other code..

>
> >      Also note that neither Cygwin nor Mingw32 are able to build the library
> > at this point because they lack
> >      thread-safe exception handling in g++ (the library uses exceptions and
> > so building with gcc, although the
> >      code should compile, is not recommended if you want proper behaviour).
>
> I added thread-safe C++ exceptions to Mingw32, and pthreads-win32 now works
> like a charm.

Now that's a COOL thing... :) I''ll be able to use that!

>
>
> > I do my coding on Win98, so I can't compile the code.    I can't comment on
> > the g++ exception handling.
>
> I ran all the tests on my laptop, which runs Win98.
>
> See, things do change for the better ;->
>
> Regards,
> Mumit