[fpc-devel] Threading support and C library under Linux/Unix

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
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> On 22 June 2010 13:55, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > The problem starts if you start linking to C libraries. In that case you're
> > pretty much forced to use pthreads;
> 
> Why is that?  I thought you could use anything, as long as it's posix compliant?

Good luck getting all the C libs to use your POSIX compatible threading
model.