[uClinux-dev] Re: [uClibc]uClibc 0.9.10 released

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 21:55:17 EST


On Thu Mar 21, 2002 at 11:22:38AM -0800, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Andersen [mailto:andersen@codepoet.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:52 AM
> > To: uClibc
> > Cc: uclinux-dev@uclinux.org
> > Subject: [uClibc]uClibc 0.9.10 released
> > 
> > availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support
> > (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!). 
> 
> What is you level of confidence in the stability of the pthread code, and
> the thread-safeness of uClibc , especially in a non-mmu target ?

It works.  Not all thread safe interfaces are implemented yet.
Most interfaces requiring thread safety are, but I have not yet
done a through thread safety audit.

> Also will gdb correctly debug multi-threaded applications linked with
> uClibc?

gdb does not yet correctly debug applications using uClibc +
threads, so I have no cause to expect it to work properly for 
mmu-less yet.

> (In a word, If i'm going to use threads, do I have to expect headaches
> debugging ?)

So far, yes.  You will really want to debug things on your host
system as much as possible before deploying a threaded app on an
mmu-less system.

 -Erik

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