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straight clean port of Ralf S Engelschall's pth-1.4.0 a
non pre-emptive implementation of POSIX threads
to 68k Amiga. This is 2 gcc linker libraries to
enable porting + writing of threaded programs to 68k Amiga.
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pthreads.html
To see a threaded program run on 68k Amiga download and run
"the 5 philosophers":
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/test_philo
(requires just ixemul.library),
:this example program uses libpth.a,
The port itself is 2 gcc linker libraries: libpthread.a and libpth.a,
Last December I ported rpm4.0 with databases disconnected
as database support required libpthread.a . So now I
should be able to generate a full port of rpm4.0
(or higher) to 68k,
(its not at the top of my to-do list)
This port took only one day to do,
an attempt at a totally
different pre-emptive implementation of libpthread.a
took well over a week before I gave up.
Anyway the consequence of this port of pth-1.4.0 is
that it will enable porting of threaded programs.
Probably noixemul progs will also be ok.
Even though it is only 1 days work I thought it
was worth an announce as people always say the
classic Amiga cant thread, well it can thread!
The most difficult thing was locating pth-1.4.0 as
I didnt know it existed till I found it, I was
only searching for libpthread.a
No idea if the example program will run on PPC or
Amithlon, email me if you try it on such.
The advantage of being non-pre-emptive is that it
is much more portable and clean.
And if it implements POSIX threading (nightmare specification)
it implements POSIX threading! (non-pre-emption notwithstanding)
The source + necessary fixes to quite bugged configure
are on http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pthreads.html
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