Threading libraries

Jonas Trollvik jontro at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 05:43:52 PST 2008


>> If I recall correctly, _xu is the default on new installs, so the
>> number of people who use/need c_r is declining over time.  At some
>> point, people using the old library will have to stop and recompile,
>> somehow, won't they?
>
> It's default, but function implemented only in it can't be used by
> applications unless implemented also in libc_r. That's how our threading
> libraries switching works.

Isnt it possible to just implement dummy functions in libc_r that
returns failure so the application using it can take care of it?

Regards,
Jonas





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