Subj : Re: Where to download a pthread library
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Drazen Kacar
Date : Wed Mar 30 2005 02:04 pm

David Butenhof wrote:
>  David Schwartz wrote:

> > Many platforms require more than just linking in an additional
> > library, they need compiler flags (like -D_REENTRANT) as well. The
> > standard is '-pthread' to do 

>  -pthread is arguably a reasonably widespread CONVENTION, but definitely 
>  not worthy of the term "standard" either in a de jure or de facto sense. 
>  It'll work for many versions of gcc across platforms, (but not all), and 
>  several vendor compilers. The second most popular is probably "-mt" 
>  (e.g., on Solaris).

AFAIK, -mt is just a shortcut for -D_REENTRANT and -lthread with Sun's
compiler. You still need to add -lpthread if you want to use POSIX
threads. Maybe it would work with -mt only, but that's an implementation
artifact, I think.

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