Subj : Re: VC++ 2005 beta1 fails with pthreads benchmark tests
To   : comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,comp.programming.threads
From : Maxim S. Shatskih
Date : Tue Apr 19 2005 12:22 am

    Not much people use POSIX threads in Windows, and even lesser of them need
100% POSIX compatibility. Most just need their code to work.

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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"Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:d40cke$d2i$05$1@news.t-online.com...
> When the POSIX pthreads library for w32 release 2-2-0
> (http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/) is compiled with VC++6
> then it compiles and passes all the benchmark tests in the subdirectory
"tests".
> Also, VC++ 2005 beta 1 compiles the tests fine, but here the following
> tests fail in execution:
>
> #   semaphore1.pass \
> #   condvar2.pass \
> #   condvar2_1.pass  \
> #   mutex8.pass \
> #   mutex8n.pass \
> #   mutex8e.pass \
> #   mutex8r.pass  \
> #   condvar3.pass  \
> #   condvar3_1.pass  \
> #   condvar3_2.pass \
> #   condvar3_3.pass  \
> #   condvar4.pass  \
> #   condvar5.pass  \
> #   condvar6.pass  \
> #   condvar7.pass  \
> #   condvar8.pass  \
> #   condvar9.pass  \
> #   rwlock7.pass  \
> #   rwlock8.pass  \
> #   rwlock2_t.pass  \
> #   rwlock3_t.pass \
> #   rwlock4_t.pass  \
> #   rwlock5_t.pass  \
> #   rwlock6_t.pass  \
> #   rwlock6_t2.pass  \
> #   spin4.pass  \
>
> Why are there such differences in execution of the generated code
> between VC++6 and VC++2005 ? Is this due to bugs in the beta1,
> or is this the result of general differences between the two products?
> Are there any compiler/linker switches for backwards "compatibility" to
VC++6?
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