On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alexander Krasnostavsky wrote:
> [...]
> >I assume that -qthreaded also defined.
>
> I don't follow you. Is this a compiler options we should use on AIX? (What
> does it do?) And then it would be only for a specific compiler, right? If
> so, which?

Looks to me like it is the AIX C compiler from IBM. I remember they had some
"-q" flags when I did my internship at IBM. It probably #defines some
thread-safe prototypes of functions that wouldn't otherwise be thread safe
(I'm thinking of the _r functions, for example). Maybe specifying
"-qthreaded" also #defines _THREAD_SAFE or _REENTRANT behind the scenes.
Might be a good idea to specify "-qthreaded" when using the AIX C compiler
(instead of just #defining _THREAD_SAFE), and specify either _THREAD_SAFE or
_REENTRANT (or both, just to be sure) when using gcc on AIX.

What do other list members that are familiar with AIX think about this?

Kind regards,

        Holger
Received on 2004-08-17