Re: why does gccgit require pthread?

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 7:59 PM LIU Hao via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> At the moment, there are references to pthread mutexes in 'gcc/jit/libgccjit.cc' and
> 'gcc/git/jit-playback.cc'. The former was introduced by 63b2923dc6f57e74d964a9cf14f4ba595ab14ed9 in
> 2020, while the latter was introduced by 38771e4e1fdacfbdac5a14e50fcc0538577b1bdb in 2014.
>
> Does this mean, GCC can't be built with JIT enabled, for some thread model other than `posix` (e.g.
> `win32`), where pthread isn't available?
>
> Can those references to mutexes be replaced with `__gthread_mutex_*` instead? However I see no other
> references to <gthr.h> inside the 'gcc' subdirectory, so I suspect it isn't an option there?

The original code which used pthread was added in GCC 5 way before GCC
moved to being written in C++11 which was only in the last 3 years.
pthread_* functions were the best choice at the time (2014) but now
GCC is written in C++11, I don't see any reason not to move them over
to using C++11 threading code.

Thanks,
Andrew


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

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> Best regards,
> LIU Hao