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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 22 June 2010 14:46, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> >
>> > 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?
>
> Yes. And 99% of the thread using programs also use other C libs that use
> libc anyway (*)

So, to answer your question above about why we need a native one:  so
we can do away with the libc dependency.

> As Jonas explained, two thread systems in one binary is almost certain not
> workable.

Yes, but you wouldn't use the native one when you are linking to libc,
you'll just use pthreads like you do now.

> But does it really warrant making a complex lib for that? And for which

I just link to libc myself, since I've never seen a system without
one, but this whole thread was in response to Michael who complained
that thread support pulls in libc.  So this explored an alternative
solution.

Henry