From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA06105 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:59:20 -0600 Received: from ottawa.linuxcare.com (HELO localhost) (216.208.98.2) by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 15:00:49 -0000 To: Alan Modra Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] problems with gcc 2.96 References: From: David Huggins-Daines Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:59:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Alan Modra's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:38:58 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: <877lauc9pk.fsf@linuxcare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Alan Modra writes: > Yeah, I got enthusiastic about implementing linuxthreads, and put in > support for parisc style spinlocks using ldcw (Load and Clear Word). > We need to grab a lock by clearing it so the locks need to be initialised > to non-zero, which is exactly opposite to other glibc spinlocks. My > enthusiasm waned when I hit a missing syscall - forget what it was now. glibc doesn't really want to compile with linuxthreads for me - something breaks in the way errno is handled and I get "undefined reference to errno" when linking. Jes says we don't really want to mess with that stuff until we have shared libs working, and I'm inclined to trust him on that :-) I guess for now we can just ignore libstdc++ and friends... -- dhd@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.