On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 11:36:31AM +0900, 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').

MIT-pthreads requires some assembly routines, and no one has written
them for mac68k.  Until someone does, this threads library won't work
under {Net,Open}BSD/mac68k.

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