From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3404 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2008 23:40:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 3359 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Sep 2008 23:40:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wilbur.25thandClement.com (HELO wilbur.25thandClement.com) (208.96.11.245) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:39:37 +0000 Received: from wilbur.25thandClement.com (william@localhost.25thandClement.com [127.0.0.1]) by wilbur.25thandClement.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8DNdTw9014884 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from william@localhost) by wilbur.25thandClement.com (8.14.1/8.14.0/Submit) id m8DNdSHn023753; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:40:00 -0000 From: William Ahern To: Ross Johnson Cc: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org Subject: Re: sigaction & pthread_sigmask Message-ID: <20080913233928.GB16488@wilbur.25thandClement.com> References: <20080619055744.GA19869@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <485B0ED4.2020909@homemail.com.au> <20080620213916.GA24891@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <485C7A15.30803@homemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <485C7A15.30803@homemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:48:37PM +1000, Ross Johnson wrote: > I'm not qualified to comment in detail. > > One thing that I can say that may be important for you deciding how much > time you put into this is that a lot of effort has gone into keeping the > library portable and consistent (for performance) across Windows > versions from W95 onward (plus WinCE - or whatever it's called now), and > able to be built using at least the MSVC and GNU compilers going back a > few years (and others if possible) primarily as a C language library, > i.e. without exception handling. Although mildly discouraged, it can be > built easily with C++ EH, or SEH (MSVC only). Update: Refactoring my code to better fit the existing codebase was more of a hassle than I initially thought. Portability is less of an issue than, for instance, refactoring my existing atomic operations library (which is based on the proposed C++ standard, stdatomic.h). I'll ping the list again when I restart work on this sub-project. My window of time ran out, and I had to move onto other things.