Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc
Organization wh0rd.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 18 February 2007, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads, we
> have broken the pthread ABI.
> <snip>
> It has been recommended that we bump to libc6.1 for NPTL. Is that a
> good idea? Are there any comments about how to make such a transition
> smooth for debian, gentoo, and ubuntu?

if the breakage is just in pthreads, i dont think the libc ABI needs to be 
bumped, just the pthread one ?  libc provides look ahead stub functions for 
pthreads, so it shouldnt be affected by the breakage you've mentioned with 
static lock initializers ...

libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.1
-mike

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