Re: ThreadedX

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Mmm, in the thread Chuck asks that 'ld' shouldn't generate bad load addresses,
and Chris doesn't know the answer, apart from saying it's a WinXP tradeoff.
As WinXP ships late October and we've got until early-mid November before 4.2.0
ships. If it shows up problems then, yes, I'll put it back. But it
does make the compilation a lot cleaner. Unless the consensus here is to
put it back now. Suhaib - do you agree with the above ?

I tend to agree that 'ld' shouldn't be generating bad code though.

Alan.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:06:52AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> Can I suggest you din't use the auto-base feature. This thread contains
> the reasoning. (Auto-base was developer for Paul Sokolovsky's gnu
> porting environment, not cygwin per se).
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg01073.html
> 
> Rob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:24 AM
> Subject: ThreadedX
> 
> 
> > A note to say I'll be committing patches to CVS that support the
> > ThreadedX option soon. I've tested twm and 'ico -threads x' where 'x'
> is the
> > number of threads you want to start. These apps work fine. I'll be
> testing
> > some more apps very soon just to check it all out.
> >
> > The build has changed slightly as I'm using the auto-import features
> to
> > resolve some stuff in libX11, which makes life much easier. I've also
> > used the auto-image-base which seems to work too which also removes a
> lot
> > of cruft from the config files.
> >
> > For those of you who cross-compile it may break, but you'll probably
> need
> > to re-compile a new binutils to pick up the newer features that we are
> now
> > using anyway. Sorry, I don't have a cross compiler environment setup
> for
> > cygwin.
> >
> > Any problems - let me know.
> >
> > Alan.
> >