Re: test-lock compilation failure on mingw

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> isn't there another problem here?  thread.h assumes
> that NULL is an 'int', which surely isn't a portable assumption.
> Here's a proposed patch:
> 
> diff --git a/lib/glthread/thread.h b/lib/glthread/thread.h
> index 5d72040..b52646d 100644
> --- a/lib/glthread/thread.h
> +++ b/lib/glthread/thread.h
> @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ typedef int gl_thread_t;
>  # define glthread_create(THREADP, FUNC, ARG) ENOSYS
>  # define glthread_sigmask(HOW, SET, OSET) 0
>  # define glthread_join(THREAD, RETVALP) 0
> -# define gl_thread_self() NULL
> +# define gl_thread_self() 0
>  # define gl_thread_exit(RETVAL) 0
>  # define glthread_atfork(PREPARE_FUNC, PARENT_FUNC, CHILD_FUNC) 0

Indeed. I'm squeezing this in:

 --- lib/glthread/thread.h.orig Thu Jun  9 12:49:02 2011
+++ lib/glthread/thread.h       Thu Jun  9 12:48:53 2011
@@ -344,9 +344,9 @@
 # define glthread_create(THREADP, FUNC, ARG) ENOSYS
 # define glthread_sigmask(HOW, SET, OSET) 0
 # define glthread_join(THREAD, RETVALP) 0
-# define gl_thread_self() NULL
+# define gl_thread_self() 0
 # define gl_thread_self_pointer() \
-    gl_thread_self ()
+    ((void *) gl_thread_self ())
 # define gl_thread_exit(RETVAL) 0
 # define glthread_atfork(PREPARE_FUNC, PARENT_FUNC, CHILD_FUNC) 0
 
Thanks.
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