Re: Single-thread builds on GCC >= 3.4.0

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-21 16:04:13

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

> BTW, I have suggested before on this list that the way to solve this, is to 
> have three thread modes:
>
> A) Threading forced on.
> B) Threading forced off.
> C) Don't care, just do whatever the compiler and standard library do by 
> default.

That's really easy to implement

> Option (C) would really be a symlink to one of the other two, and
> would be the one with the unmangled name (no threading suffix). The
> way the toolsets are currently set up is to really offer (A) and
> (C), since that matches what the headers do internally.

That part might be harder.

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Dave Abrahams
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