POSIX threads for 68k Amiga ported
Date 28-Jan-2004 22:33:10
Topic: Software News
| This is to announce a straight clean port of Ralf S Engelschall's non-pre-emptive implementation of POSIX threading pth-1.4.0 to 68k Amiga. Read more for more information.
"It was only 1 days work to port as it has been so
cleanly written. However I thought it was worth an
announce as I had always thought that threading
was near impossible for 68k Amiga.
No idea why this never reached Geekgadgets or www.aminet.net,
:possibly because it takes a mighty amount of effort to
locate pth-1.4.0 especially if you didnt know it existed
till you found it and were only looking for libpthread.a
To see threading in action on a 68k Amiga,
download and run the example program:
"the 5 philosophers":
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/test_philo
(requires just ixemul.library v48.0),
(I may upload some further examples later),
The port itself is 2 linker libraries for gcc,
libpthread.a and libpth.a,
(nothing to do with lip reading and taking the pith eh!)
to download the port visit:
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pthreads.html
Before this I wasted over a week attempting to port a
totally different pre-emptive threading implementation
of the same libpthread.a to 68k.
whoosh777"
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