From: Luke K. C. L. <lk...@lk...> - 2005-09-18 10:37:53
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okay, it's not time to get totally excited yet, but i have successfully compiled - and run, and confirmed as working on ros - some of the test programs from dcethreads (http://sf.net/projects/freedce) when cross-compiled with mingw32 and linked with pthreads-win32. this is _very_ significant because it means that there is a good chance of replicating entegrity's work - PC-DCE - with zero modifications to the freedce source code. i've cut out entirely the dcethreads "emulation" stuff, which means that dcethreads posix draft 4 compliance - including the ability to pass on thread cancellation across an RPC client/server app boundary, and including the ability to pass on signals across an RPC client/server app boundary - are completely out the window... ... but i don't care. so. the bits "remaining" in my hacked-together-version of dcethreads is _just_ the exception handling - exc_handling.c and exc_handling.h pretty much. that means that the DCE "TRY", "RAISE", "CATCH" and "EXCEPT" macros are all there. it's early days, but this is good news. now. here's what i don't want to hear from anyone: q) "why in hell's name are you doing this? why can't you just remove all references to posix threads and all references to DCE/RPC exception handling?" a) lkcl@highfield:~/sf/freedce/freedce$ find . | xargs grep pthread | wc 770 3965 64010 lkcl@highfield:~/sf/freedce/freedce$ find . -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep ENDTRY | wc 105 248 4490 lkcl@highfield:~/sf/freedce/freedce$ find . -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep RAISE | wc 202 731 12799 lkcl@highfield:~/sf/freedce/freedce$ find . -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep CATCH | wc 217 685 12392 in short: modifying several thousand lines of code, by hand, is something that microsoft can happily pay some donut code-dunker to do (and did, probably back in 1990-1993) but i sure as hell ain't doing it for a proof-of-concept bit of work. q) "why are you doing this and doing it to _us_? go away!!" a) you are inflicting much pain upon yourselves, even though you probably don't know it. don't like what i'm doing, don't like what i have to say? tough - get over it: i don't have time or money to waste to stroke egos. i'll give you what time i can and what facts i can and also i will present you with an opinion: if you don't like that opinion or the way it's presented, that is your choice. live with it, deal with it or ignore it - i'll pretend i don't care which. i give you information, present you with choices: where you go from there - as neo says as the end of matrix 1.... l. -- -- <a href="http://lkcl.net">http://lkcl.net</a> -- |