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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:17:08 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   -lpthread vs -pthread: does -D_REENTRANT matter?
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxg=PnQvtXydhx8%2BoRZJ2ERBoGwedXPcGi_9icYxAtPuxVw@mail.gmail.com>

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The only difference between -lpthread and -pthread that I could see is
that the latter also sets -D_REENTRANT.
However, I can't find any uses of _REENTRANT anywhere outside of a few
utilities that seem to define it manually.

Testing with various manually written pthread programs resulted in
identical binaries, let alone identical results.

Is there an actual difference between -pthread and -lpthread or is
this just a historical artifact?

-- 
Eitan Adler



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