Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:53:07 +0000

 On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 08:20:03PM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
  >  Now I'm not familiar enough with __thread on NetBSD to know if they're
  >  supposed to work or not.  The configure script runs a gcc command to
  >  test that it's available if --with-__thread is AUTO or YES, and since
  >  this test appears successful it attempts to use the feature.
 
 It does not currently work. There has been talk about adding support
 for it, and there's intent to do so (even though the ABI we appear to
 be obliged to support is gross), but as far as I know it hasn't been
 done yet.
 
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 David A. Holland
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