What will be in the next snapshot, due soon.

What will be in the next snapshot, due soon.

[Ross Johnson]

Hi all,

Just to let people know what to expect in the next snapshot, which I
will get out just as soon as I write a few more tests for Aurelio
Medina's rwlock code. The three simple tests written so far have
all passed.

Apart from contributed bug fixes, there is Aurelio's rwlock
routines. I've modified Aurelio's code slightly to conform to the
style used for other opaque objects in the library (mutexes and
cond vars etc). 

Mumit Khan's patches to enable building the library under
Mingw32/MSVCRT are in there too.

Ross

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Re: What will be in the next snapshot, due soon.

[Mumit Khan]

Ross Johnson <rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au> writes:
> 
> Mumit Khan's patches to enable building the library under
> Mingw32/MSVCRT are in there too.
> 

A small clarification -- the patches will allow fully working pthreads
with GCC ix86-pc-mingw32 ports (mingw ports using either CRTDLL or MSVCRT 
runtimes), but you'll need to wait till the next release of gcc for it
to actually work.

The changes needed:
  - a minor tweak to system header 
  - a not so minor tweak to make thread-safe C++ exceptions to work with
    GCC/Mingw.

I can always make a snapshot available for those who want to play with it,
however with the caveat that certain items may change in the real release
that will break binary compatibility (probably expected when you're used
to dealing with using developer snapshots anyway).

Regards,
Mumit