Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 18:53:15 EDT From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU> To: dufault@hda.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthreads (was Re: DCE in BSD4.4-Lite) Message-ID: <9506152253.AA13384@jimi.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:13:49 EDT." <199506081313.JAA04674@hda.com>
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> Weston Ruch writes: > > > I would like to experiment with the DCE shareware available > > at gatekeeper.dec.com. However, the DCE shareware > > requires POSIX 4.0 threads. Have POSIX 4.0 threads been > > implemented in FreeBSD? > > Chris Provenzano's beta pthread package based on POSIX1003.4a Draft > 8 with a few minor patches compiles and almost runs through its > tests on FreeBSD 2.05B. The test that fails is the > floating point preemption test, which dies with a: > > > pid 4510 (test_preemption_) exited with masked floating point exceptions 0x > 4 I'm not sure that the test is even valid yet. I still have a lot of work to test floating point on many platforms. > > I'll bet bde can suggest a fix for this; I recall him commenting on > floating point in signal handlers. Any help would be appriciated. CAP
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