From: bje AT cygnus DOT com (Ben Elliston)
Subject: Re: posix threads (pthread32) undefined references
30 Oct 1998 22:28:26 -0800
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To: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cc: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, Alex Madarasz <madarasz AT erols DOT com>,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, rpj AT ise DOT canberra DOT edu DOT au, rjc AT trump DOT net DOT au

> I'm running Cygwin32 b19.3 (no EGCS, gcc from cdk.exe) on a Win98 box.

Right.  So you may or may not have TryEnterCriticalSection(), for example.
I don't know.

> so why don't adding them, Geoffrey?!

I believe there was some contention over what effect this would have on
_any_ binaries linked against this stub.  Someone tried to convince me
that this means that the executable would fail to load on systems where
this didn't exist, even if the program didn't call for this function.

Ben

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