Re: How to detect NPTL at compile time

[email protected] (Wan-Teh Chang)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  Dan Kegel wrote:
 > For some reason I thought the
 > preferred strategy was to build a single app that
 > can run well under either LinuxThreads or NPTL,
 > and Jakub's code fragment was meant to let you
 > enable LinuxThreads workarounds at runtime.
 >
 > What are the technical pros and cons of this approach
 > vs. the one Wan-Teh is considering (namely, building
 > separate apps for LinuxThreads and NPTL)?

The cost of QA testing.  If an app needs to support
both LinuxThreads and NPTL, all the testing needs to
be repeated.

Wan-Teh
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