Author: Alejandro Dubrovsky
Date: 23:26:47 04/10/02
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On April 10, 2002 at 11:58:36, Russell Reagan wrote: >I'd like to write my program in portable C, so that I can test it out on my >Windows machine as well as Unix/Linux. I've heard people suggest pthreads and I >believe ACE is another that comes to mind. > >What is the best approach to implementing threads into a program in a portable >way? Are any of the portable thread libraries any better than the rest? > >Initially I'm just using a seperate thread for input to simplify polling for >input from console and winboard, but I would eventually (a long way off) like to >implement some multiprocessor support, so I will need a poartbable threading >method eventually, and I might as well implement it from the beginning. > i use pthread for the polling simplification you mentioned. It seems to work fine, except for pthread_yield, which seems to misbehave in win98 (and maybe in the other members of the non-NT based windows family. Alejandro
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