[M3devel] State of threads? pthreads not safe to use on some platforms?

[Tony Hosking]

So the question is what has changed.
I know threads were functional and stable at one point.

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On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Dragiša Durić wrote:

> Program I had problem with is fork-less... Simple and pure Modula-3 and it used to work - it's what puzzless me most... It is a platform I only use for single application running and another building (for 32bit version)... Nothing cm3 related changed in ages....
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> On Apr 17, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Tony Hosking wrote:
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>> Things should work, modulo some of the corner cases for programs using fork.  Mika has a test case for this, that I encourage exploration with.  I am snowed and won't be able to do so until the summer comes around.
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>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Dragiša Durić wrote:
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>>> I am still puzzled with this... What exactly do we have now? Do we have a version where things work, or something? Or we don't have threads for cm3 anymore?
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> dd
>>> 
>> 
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