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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2013-02-13 10:41:10 +0100 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2013-02-13 10:41:10 +0100 |
| commit | b41f74438672dd682bc01ae818cb3da654f22c1e (patch) | |
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Updated to latest CVS version of pthreads
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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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