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Re: boehm-gc and threads



Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:30:09AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Currently devel/boehm-gc builds without threads on all platforms except
>> Darwin.  guile 2.0 prerelease (master in git) needs libgc with thread
>> support.  Is there a reason why thread support is disabled by default,
>> and why it's different on Darwin?  If not, I would like to make thread
>> support enable by default.
>
> It can only be enabled by default if it has the necessary platform
> support for thread local storage. IIRC.

So maybe it should be enabled on all but a list of deficient platforms?

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