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Re: [PATCH] hppa: Use generic pthread conditional variable support

On 12 Mar 2017 16:00, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2017-03-12, at 3:41 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > Carlos was thinking about re-arranging the struct layout and reserving
> > the LSB of __g1_orig_size for the bit that would be set in a condvar
> > initialized by linuxthreads:
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-03/msg00058.html
> 
> It's up to Carlos.  Personally, I'm not sure it's worth maintaining the linuxthreads compatibility.
> Removing it gets rid of a lot of hppa code.

i agree -- linuxthreads should die w/hppa.  if we can keep compat with
nptl but drop linuxthreads, let's do it.  we've already broken the ABI
once after the linuxthreads->nptl change.
-mike

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