From 429d88d4e7518b668dc305c2cb389d632c66c66b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Vollmer Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:20:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New stuff about the thread support. --- NEWS | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ee7227d85..a111bff55 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ Changes since the stable branch: When you configure "--with-threads=null", you will get the usual threading API (call-with-new-thread, make-mutex, etc), but you can't -actually create new threads. +actually create new threads. Also, "--with-threads=no" is now +equivalent to "--with-threads=null". This means that the thread API +is always present, although you might not be able to create new +threads. -The short term plan is to remove the support for --with-threads=no -completely so that one doesn't need to special case as much when -writing code that needs to be thread-aware but should also work -without threads. +When cooperative threading is not supported on your platform, you will +get the "null" threads. The long term plan is to make the selection of a thread implementation a run-time option, not a configure time option.