From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: multithreaded or reentrant libraries 18 Jul 1998 09:31:29 -0700 Message-ID: <19980717202554.A17233.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <01BDAF17.C719FE40@drs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Ron G. Minnich" , "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:18PM -0400, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > > I failed today to get some fellow researchers to standardize on the cygnus > toolset as opposed to VC++ for Windows/NT. The principle objection was the > lack of support for multithreaded apps. Any thoughts here on how far away > this is would be good to hear. I was disappointed to see these folks > choose a proprietary tool chain. No promises, but it's somewhat likely that Cygwin32 will support multi-threaded apps (and the pthreads set of calls?) by the end of 1998. -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".