ld.so, threads

Andy, what is the general technique used fir the shared libraries? We
don't need specifics, but I for one would like to know whether it's
jump tables, PIC or something else.

Also, has anyone thought of writing some wrappers for VSTa threads to
make them POSIX threads compatible? Is this worth it? I think that as
everyone gets used to multithreaded programming, more and more of the
servers will become multithreaded; MADO certainly will be. We also
need more threadsafe library code; things like lists, queues, trees,
semaphores...

Finally, now that shared libraries look like they'll be coming along,
I think we should probably start moving over toward unicode support. I
have the beginnings of a wide string library done, but I stopped work
on it partly because of the size of the table needed for things like
ispunct() et al. Once I get a few hours, I'll dust off the code, and
finish it off. I'll also hack on doprnt. I want MADO and bitblt to be
able to handle Unicode...

Gavin "Threads help structure programs" Nicol
Received on Sun Sep 25 14:25:25 1994