Re: state of --with-threads=POSIX_THREADS?

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Jörg,

> What's the state of threads in the current clisp? Is it a release target?

Not a release target for 2.50, nor for 2.51. Getting multithreading to
work reliably is a long-term target, that will take years to complete.

> Is it worth opening bug reports about it?

You can open such bugs; please mark them with 'Labels: multithreading'.

> On my 32 bit OSX 10.6.8 machine, and in my environment (no ffcall, no sigsegv library!),
> all the regular build-porting-gcc-* expected to build (i.e. not the debug one, not the
> gen-gc ones) build fine and pass tests (except the flaky one, bug #720).

Thanks a lot for this report!

Bruno