Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Installing on Windows 95 with Mingw32 1.1

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-02 07:38:11

>ISTR that when I tried to use boost.threads in the past on Win98, I
>encountered problems with the TSS code as well - with MSVC. I didn't see
the
>page faults since a catch(...) handler on MSVC eats them but the results
>were worse than that - the machine locked up in about half of the cases,
in
>the other half the thread that faulted died without warning.

I haven't seen that.

>I think that it's possible that the problem is not gcc-specific. Note that
>both your successes use pthreads-win32, not the native win32
implementation
>of Boost.Threads.

the tests run fine using the win32 threads API as well (at least for me),
the reason I used pthreads-win32 was to make the tests more directly
comparable to cygwin (which has it's own pthreads API).

- John Maddock
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/