| Title | No multi-threaded test cases on Windows |
| Status | closed |
| Priority | optional |
| Assigned user | Gareth Rees |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | The multi-threaded test cases and benchmarks (amcssth, awlutth, djbench, gcbench) don't run on Windows. |
| Analysis | That's because the test cases are written using POSiX threads, which of course don't run on Windows. We could use a POSIX threads library for Windows such as pthreads-w32 [1]. But the only POSIX thread features we actually use are pthread_t, pthread_create() and pthread_join() so it ought to be straightforward to add a portable threads wrapper to testlib.c. |
| How found | inspection |
| Evidence | [1] <https://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/> |
| Created by | Gareth Rees |
| Created on | 2014-03-18 16:22:36 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2014-06-19 19:16:06 |
| History | 2014-03-18 GDR Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185354 | closed | 2014-04-08 16:26:27 | Gareth Rees | Fix bugs in exposet0.c and steptest.c on Windows. Port djbench and gcbench to Windows. Run amcssth and awlutth test cases on Windows. |
| 185350 | open | 2014-04-08 15:14:32 | Gareth Rees | New header testthr.h provides simple threading interface. Implementations testthrix.c for Unix and testthrw3.c for Windows. Multi-threaded test cases use the new interface. Rename lockutw3 to lockut (no longer Windows-specific). Run multi-threaded test cases on Windows and lockut elsewhere. |