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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:50:39 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        shocking@prth.pgs.com (Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com
Subject:   Re: mozilla source
Message-ID:  <199804010950.TAA06288@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199804010942.RAA01206@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth at "Apr 1, 98 05:42:07 pm"

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Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
> 	Doesn't our own gcc support the -thread option, which automagically setups up 
> the right defines and links in the -lc_r lib?

It does the -lc_r, but not defines.

FWIW, _THREAD_SAFE is only required to get a thread-safe errno. This was
a compromize to meet the requirement that libc_r was not allowed to
have a runtime impact on code in libc. The errno implementation will
have to change when (if? - it's now April!) kernel threads kick in.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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