Re: pthreads...

[David Brownlee <abs%anim.dreamworks.com@localhost>]

        I think there are people on the mac68k port in pretty much the
        same boat. You might want to ask on port-m68k as it covers all
        m68k NetBSD ports.

                David/absolute

         -=- They took away my irony, but they left my deceit  -=-

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, ali (Anders Lindgren) wrote:

> ...Noticed that posix threads (the mit POSIX-threads package)
> doesn't work under port-amiga. This was a bit sad since I,
> uh, need a POSIX threads-library. :-) Just wondering if the
> amiga-specifics are in the works, or - the worst case (since
> I don't know jack about m68k-assembly and the missing parts
> seems to be mach-dep assembly snippets) what would be required
> of me (if I find someone who'll give me a crash-course in m68020+
> asm :-) ) to do the porting; would it be hard? (I presume the
> assembly parts are the implementation of thread context-saving/restoring
> and semaphore mutual exclusion?)
> 
> I've written a (tiny, SIMPLE) threads-library for solaris before,
> so I've got a fairly good idea of what it's all about, it's just
> that I hate assembly and never saw any m68k asm...
> 
> Anyone know?
> 
> regards,
> /ali: Computer Science Major and aspiring cartoonist. :-) 
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