[c++-pthreads] Re: pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again

[Nathan Myers]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:52:26AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Nathan Myers <ncm at cantrip.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | 7. We may assume we can hijack/shadow standard system and library
> | calls and add our own semantics, such as causing them to report 
> 
> Similar experiment has been tried in a previous version of Standard
> C++.  It led to complete disaster, installing non-portability as the
> de facto norm as far as inherited C-headers are concerned, in both the 
> <cxxx> and <xxx.h> form.  I don't think it is an option we can
> contemplate. 

This is the opposite of that case: no changes to the header files is
contemplated; instead, just a different binding of dynamic link entry
points, as occurs routinely whenever (e.g.) you upgrade your libc.  

Nathan Myers
ncm at codesourcery.com
ncm at cantrip.org