On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:17:38 -0500
Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com> wrote:

>    2) Are gdb or libpthreads on sparc64 known to have any problems?
4.0 still uses SA threads and AFAIK SA threads never worked well on
sparc64. The situation improved a lot when -current switched to a new
threading model a while back. E.g. firefox was unusable on sparc64 with
SA threads but runs quit nice on -current with the new non-SA threads.

So, if you want / need to use a threaded application you have to switch
either to -current on sparc64 or to an other machine architecture if you
want / need to stay at 4.0. :-(
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