X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:06:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.5-1 : is the type 'pthread_spinlock_t' supported? Message-ID: <20100803140640.GB21733@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:56:36PM +0800, David Zhang wrote: >Hello, everyone. I'm using Cygwin 1.7.5-1 on Windows XP for some >multithread programming using Pthreads. > >I wonder if the type "pthread_spinlock_t" is supported since when I >tried to compile a C code that used "pthread_spinlock_t", GCC said: > >error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pthread_spinlock_t' > >or > >error: 'pthread_spinlock_t' undeclared (first use in this function) >Then I open the file 'pthread.h' in the usr/include folder. It seems >that there isn't any function definitions relating to spinlock like >pthread_spin_init, pthread_spin_lock, etc. So does it means that >'pthread_spinlock_t' is not supported in Cygwin 1.7.5-1? Yes. If you don't see it in /usr/include that does mean it isn't implemented. >If it doesn't for now, is there any plan for Cygwin to support it? >Thx! There are no plans to implement it. Sorry. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple