[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/2] thread: remove redundant darwin thread code

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Sat Feb 22 08:15:55 CET 2020


Le lauantaina 22. helmikuuta 2020, 4.23.39 EET Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> A lot of the code for darwin threading was exactly the same as the
> posix one, so instead of having a copy of the code that needs to be
> maintained, use the posix thread code

It used to be that way, and it degenerated into an ugly pile of ifdef's 
because of MacOS bugs and proprietary interfaces. Plus it makes it impossible 
for people with Mac's to test/change the POSIX code.

Not sure we want to get back there.

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