Subject: Re: pthread library query
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Andy Finnell <andyf@vei.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/20/1999 22:05:09
Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:20:14 -0500, Andy Finnell wrote:
> > The first port you refer to is the MIT Pthreads package.  It has
> > some preliminary 68k support, but its not aimed at the mac68k.  You
> > can look at the configure script and see that they are starting to
> > add 68k support, or they thought they were going to add it.  However
> > if you look in mach_dep directory, you'll notice only one of the
> > needed support files is there for NetBSD/68k.
>
> Hm, what's wrong with that?  If it really runs on NetBSD/m68k, it
> should (well, I'm very tempted to use "must" here) run on mac68k, too.
> NetBSD maintains a very high level of interoperability between
> different ports (esp. of a same processor type, e.g. m68k), and I
> can think of nothing that makes a thread library dependent on any
> particular `machine' (as opposed to `processor architecture').

The keyword here is *preliminary* m68k support.  There is nothing more
than a simple header file for 68k processors.  None of
the context switching functions have been written or anything like that.
If it was that simple, I would have already gotten a working copy
going.  :-)

    -andy