Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:16:15 +0100 From: Anders Torger <torger@ludd.luth.se> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER work? Message-ID: <200403111616.15668.torger@ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <40507287.1040203@he.iki.fi> References: <200403111459.11287.torger@ludd.luth.se> <40507287.1040203@he.iki.fi>
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On Thursday 11 March 2004 15.07, you wrote: > Anders Torger wrote: > >Do the PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER and PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER macros > >really work? > > > >What puzzles me is that pthread.h says: > > > >#define PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER NULL > >#define PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER NULL > > > >that is the initialisers are NULL. > > > >I get some strange random temporary lockups and deaths in my program > >when running it on FreeBSD (5.0), while it works flawlessy on Linux, > >and one reason could perhaps be that the initialisers do not work on > >FreeBSD. > > 5.0 is an early new technology release, I would suggest using 5.2.1 > when reporting issues. PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER is defined as NULL in 5.2.1 too. I shall test the software on that platform later though. However, it would be nice if someone could explain this NULL thing (it is not NULL on other pthread implementations I have looked at). Perhaps there is a perfectly natural explanation? /Anders Torger
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