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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 23 June 2010 14:03, Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> Op Wed, 23 Jun 2010, schreef Henry Vermaak:
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>> On 23 June 2010 13:58, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
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>>> On 06/23/2010 02:45 PM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
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>>>> I think you'll first have to worry porting fpc to those architectures.
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>>> Right you are :)
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>>> But anyway, if not using libc, you need to do the FUTEX user space part
>>> in Pascal/Assembler
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>> Why would you want to do that?  Just use the futex syscall.
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> Because the Futex syscall won't give you threads, it requires userspace
> assistance.

A futex syscall doesn't know anything about threads, it's for locking.
 Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you?