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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: best approach for multithreading (?)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 17:48:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-01, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/2024 7:54 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2024-12-01, Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:10:03 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> There's a standard library for multithreading.
>>>> https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pthreads.7.html
>>>
>>> Since C11, the C standard library has provided it's own support for
>>> threading, which (I'm told) closely resembles the POSIX threading
>>> model implemented in the Linux pthreads library.
>> 
>> Yes; they stupidly took a chunk of POSIX (IEE 1003 standard, originally
>> formed as a fork of C to standarize Unix things) and cloned an
>> incompatible version with different types and function names.
>> 
>> For over a decade before that, people were already using POSIX threads
>> on platforms that don't have POSIX threads, via libraries.
>
> Here is one I used to always use back in the day over on Windows:
>
> https://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

And that is not significantly harder to implement (if at all) than C11
threading.

Think about it. The POSIX standard includes ISO C by reference.
So that means POSIX has to have two thread libraries.
It's a waste of flash in embedded systems.


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