[Mono-list] Use of pthreads in io-layer/atomic.c (WAS: mono-0.11 on StrongARM)

[Duraid Madina]

Hi all,

	The pthread spinlock calls are less portable than you might
think. I tried building Mono on HP-UX 11.00 (GCC 3.1) and they were the
first problem I ran into.

	What do people think of developing Mono against GNU pth
( http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/ ) when configured with
--enable-pthread ? This is a nice and portable lowest common denominator
implementation of pthreads. (But yes, we'd have to do spinlocks
ourselves.)

	Curious,

	Duraid