Posix threads

[Joel Sherrill]

Sébastien Côté wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if newlib supports pthreads? 

No.  But newlib is used by RTEMS which does support pthreads.  
RTEMS+newlib provides about 85% of POSIX 1003.1b.

> Also, I'd like to know
> the level of compatibility between newlib and glibc. If I port a program
> designed under glibc, will I have do to a lot of modifications to
> compile it under newlib ?

Speaking from the RTEMS/newlib perspective, there are things in glibc
that are not in newlib.  

If you are moving from a UNIX to a embedded system, then you could
run into problems with fork/exec but that is not strictly
glibc versus newlib.
 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Sébastien Côté

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