[M3devel] targeting kernel instead of libc/pthreads?

Jay K jay.krell at cornell.edu
Wed Aug 12 02:14:35 CEST 2009


> There is exactly one pthreads implementation in use, NPTL.
> That is really thin layer providing pthreads API.
 
Is it thin?
Is it really the same and binary compatible among the various C libraries -- glibc, uclibc, newlib? Same struct sizes and initializers? (I'd hope the initializers are all NULL and the structs all just the size of a pointer, but that isn't always the case.)
 
 - Jay


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