Re: [boost] boost/config/suffix.hpp: spurious BOOST_HAS_THREADS withg++ 3.4

From: Christoph Ludwig (cludwig_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-13 05:15:00

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:05:11PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> [...]
> > Looking at the GCC sources under gcc/config/ it appears that some
> > platforms (e.g. Solaris2, NetBSD, Linux on certain architectures) define
> > _PTHREADS when -pthread is used.  x86-linux is not one of those platforms,
> > nor is FreeBSD. It might be possible to get that macro, or something else,
> > defined on all platforms when -pthread is given so Boost could check for
> > that.
> > 
> > Cristoph, did you ever ask about this issue on the "gcc" list, or just
> > "gcc-help" ?
> 
> I did only ask on gcc-help. 
> 
> But I'll probably file a bug report today or tomorrow; even if the gcc
> developers don't agree that the definition of _REENTRANT in single
> threaded mode is a regression, there's at least a documentation bug:
> The -pthread option isn't documented at all for x86-Linux. It's
> therefore hard to tell which preprocessor definitions are correct and
> what behaviour you can count on (e.g., with respect to the
> initialization of local static variables).

I entered a report in the gcc bug database:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15415 

Regards

Christoph
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