Subject: Re: mit-pthreads - 'arm32-unknown-netbsd1.3E': machine not recognised
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Dave Millen <webmaster@largesalad.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/30/1998 17:32:16
Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 
> mit-pthreads contains assembly code system call stubs because it wraps
> a number of system calls in order to track file descriptor usage and
> avoid blocking the entire process when one thread needs to wait for
> i/o completion.  until someone writes ARM versions of those stubs (or
> does a better integrated threads package for NetBSD), it won't work on
> the ARM..

That's pretty much what I thought, but shouldn't the arm32 option be removed
from the Makefile until it's done?

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