On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

: Perhaps _REENTRANT libc locking could be coded to a run-time
: replaceable interface, and ports of various threading packages to run
: with the reentrant libc could supply a vector of
: lock/unlock/... operations.  Not the most efficient, but it doesn't
: prematurely commit us to one particular threading package..

There's always weak symbols, which we half support in a.out.  ;)

Seriously, though, I have a real need to see a
pthread_{set,get}specific() pair in libc, even as stubs for the
single-threaded case, so egcs/gcc295 and its libgcc can be built with
thread-ready C++ exception support.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)