Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/regress/lib/libpthread
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/18/2003 15:06:10
However the behavior of lib/libpthread is exactly this behavior. It checks
for a supported arch and then moves on if it's not there.

So, prior art would support that this is the correct thing to do.

James

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>"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> writes:
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:44:46 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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>> > I think the intent before was to deliberately break such arches and
>> > force them to make pthreads work.
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>> This intent is not communicated -
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>Jason has said this several times on multiple lists including
>source-changes, though.
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>Perry
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>> neither in the WARNING, nor in the
>> code (e.g. there's no explicit "false" or something).  More over, the
>> warning is worded as "skipping", which clearly hints that the
>> intention is to just, uhm, skip it.
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>> [Note to self: need to commit few syntax errors into the drivers I
>> consider "experimental"]
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>> SY, Uwe
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>Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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