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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2013-02-13 11:03:57 +0100 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2013-02-13 11:03:57 +0100 |
| commit | 8fa17b13062c1e2acca542cc7a2ccb09aca874e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 158a6239b0fdf2abf63fb7365b4cd4886c15f5b1 /pthreads/TODO | |
| parent | 4a165ef2f762a4ce9155f2a3626692326bda616d (diff) | |
| parent | b41f74438672dd682bc01ae818cb3da654f22c1e (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/released'
* origin/released:
Updated to latest CVS version of pthreads
Conflicts:
pthreads/Makefile
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diff --git a/pthreads/TODO b/pthreads/TODO index fa9efc46e..e59205b4f 100644 --- a/pthreads/TODO +++ b/pthreads/TODO @@ -4,4 +4,20 @@ 1. Implement PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED for semaphores, mutexes, condition variables, read/write locks, barriers. +2. For version 3 onwards: the following types need to change, resulting in an ABI + change: + a) ptw32_handle_t (a.k.a. pthread_t) + Change the reuse counter from unsigned int to size_t. Type "int" on 32 bit + and 64 bit Windows is 32 bits wide. + + To give an indication of relative effectiveness of the current "unsigned int", + consider an application that creates and detaches threads at the rate of 1 + per millisecond. At this rate the reuse counter will max out after 49 days. + + After changing to "size_t" an application compiled for x64 and creating and + detaching a thread every nanosecond would max out after 584 years. + + b) pthread_once_t + Remove unused elements. +
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