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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 22 June 2010 14:38, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> >> 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.
>>
>> The reason for creating a native threading implementations is that you
>> _don't_ have to use libc.  Why would you use a native one if you're
>> linking to libc anyway?
>
> Why would you need a native one in the first place?

I was under the impression that fpc uses libc to implement threads on
unix.  Is this not the case?

Henry