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authorrpj <rpj>2001-07-10 08:54:06 +0000
committerrpj <rpj>2001-07-10 08:54:06 +0000
commit65801c9226cebcec8d8ab164175bad236230e02d (patch)
treefcd3af00a24557ef163fee29e575d37c0c3a3c95 /ANNOUNCE
parent5865dd7b74b0b23eb178249bfd5a000cc929f147 (diff)
Updated.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 9f269a4..3b88c0b 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ These are part of POSIX 1003.1j.
pthread_spin_lock()
pthread_spin_unlock()
pthread_spin_trylock()
- #define PTHREAD_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER
+ PTHREAD_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER
Spin_lock spins (busy-waits) if more than one processor is available
-to the process, othewise it is equivalent to a POSIX_MUTEX_DEFAULT.
-The spinlock routines do minimal error checking.
+to the process, othewise it is equivalent to a POSIX_MUTEX_DEFAULT
+mutex. The spinlock routines do minimal error checking.
--------------------------------
New: Barriers (beta level code)
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ Known bugs in this snapshot
1. Under MS VC++ (only tested with version 6.0), a term_func
set via the standard C++ set_terminate() function is not called
- for some reason. The code - in private.c:ptw32_threadStart() -
- makes an explicit call to terminate() which works as expected
- under MinGW32 g++ doesn't appear to run the term_func under
- MC VC++ 6.0.
+ for some reason. The code in private.c ptw32_threadStart()
+ retrieves and calls the user supplied terminate routine, which
+ works as expected under MinGW32 g++, but doesn't run under
+ MS VC++ 6.0, presumably because set_terminate() returns NULL.
2. Cancellation problems in optimised code
- Milan Gardian
@@ -312,13 +312,14 @@ The following functions are implemented:
pthread_win32_thread_detach_np
---------------------------
- Static Initializers (macros)
+ Static Initializers
---------------------------
PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT
PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER
-
+ PTHREAD_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER
+
---------------------------
Thread-Safe C Runtime Library (macros)
---------------------------