Thanks a lot for a brief explanation.

Andi

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:34:59 +0800 Andrew Francis
<locust_at_familyhealth.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:08:27AM +0700, Andi Jahja wrote:
> > IMO, there is an unparelel switch between Borland and VC6 makefiles.
> > For Borland, -tWM is used while VC6's counterpart /MT is not.
> > IIRC, -tWM and /MT are switches to enable Multi - Threading (CMIIW).
>
> It doesn't "enable multithreading" as such, but instead uses
> a multi-thread-safe version of the statically linked standard
> C library. You can use threads in an application linked against
> the non-thread-safe library, but doing stuff like malloc()
> simultaneously in different threads is prone to breakage.
>
> curl links against the dynamically linked version of the C
> standard library, which is also thread safe. The /MD
> flag does this.

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