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Re: [DotGNU]pnet on address@hidden
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Michal Moskal |
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Re: [DotGNU]pnet on address@hidden |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003 02:42:12 +0200 |
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:41:59AM -0700, Gopal V wrote:
> > Why libgc and libffi are included with pnet? Why
> > orginal libraries aren't
> > used?
>
> Because they included a few hacks and fixes not
> included in the original libraries... ask ^Tum and
> sprinjp about what has changed and where (like threads
>
> in gc, some darwin .S files ....)
I looked into CVS log for libgc, and there was only one relevant change
for linux (checking if pthread_create succeed). This is minor fix, that
we in PLD can easly have in our system-wide libgc. It should also go
upstream. Therefore it would be nice to be able to compile pnet with
system libgc.
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