Subj : Re: creating library to be used in threaded and nonthreaded apps
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ian
Date : Fri Apr 29 2005 02:16 pm

Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a shared library that is designed to be reentrant.  (No 
> static data, etc.)  It is safe to call from multiple threads 
> simultaneously.
> 
> I'd like to make one version of the shared library that I can use in 
> both threaded an nonthreaded applications, without forcing the 
> nonthreaded apps to link against the pthreads library.
> 
> I *think* I need to do at least something to tell the compiler how to 
> deal with stuff like errno, but maybe that's implementation-dependent?
> 
If your library is thread safe and doesn't use any thread calls, why 
would the user require libpthread?

The standard runtimes (libC) should take care of these details.

Ian

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