[M3devel] threading on Windows?

[Rodney M. Bates]

On 02/09/2011 04:00 PM, Mika Nystrom wrote:
> Hi m3devel,
>
> I'm just curious if anyone out there who's running CM3 on Windows has had
> a chance to try my thread testing program yet.  Current status on Unix
> (Linux, FreeBSD) appears to be that there are problems in pthreads (but
> I think only under heavy load) and that user threading works perfectly.
> So I now wonder how things are on the third threading platform (Windows).
> The thread testing program is at m3-libs/m3core/tests/thread .
>
> (Note however that there is a memory leak in TRY-EXCEPT in the current
> head so don't try to update everything to the CVS head.  The previous
> release should be OK.)
>
> Also has anyone else noticed that debugging information has recently
> broken?  m3gdb is very unhappy on all platforms for me...

Hmm, I'll try to look at that.  I have been using the release branch for
work on other projects.  Even there, I have been seeing some problems in
m3gdb not handling 64-bit processors.

>
>       Mika
>