-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2010 02:52 PM, vicente.botet wrote:
I'm confused... what is the difference between having two separate libraries and having a compile-time option? The compile-time option leads directly to having two separate compiled versions of the library.
You have misunderstood my concern. I mean to have a library xint and a library xint_ts (thread safe), as we have have now signals and signals2. This provides two libraries with different features can can leave on the same executable.
User that don't need the xint_ts dont have to link with lib thread. Of course, xint_ts can use anything xint provides, but not the oposit.
Just an idea, that solves a lot of issue taking in account the different user expectations.
The thread-safe version would be different from the single-thread version in only two tiny pieces of code (one for a shared resource, one that turns off the copy-on-write stuff). Is that enough to really justify a separate library? - -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvcpLAACgkQp9x9jeZ9/wQsiwCdFIcEkpV/gLOBhsE9I+3qynUw uIUAn1fiN8llN/1/UUR8hbMcx0cgls7u =xGwO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----