Re: a time for MiNTlibs pl47?

[Sven Karlsson <sven@it.lth.se>]

> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sven Karlsson wrote:
> 
> > Since I'm developing Fenix there are two things I would like to see
> > in mintlibs:
> > 
> > 1) Fenix is fully multithreaded. Making mintlibs MT-safe is necessarily.
> >    If noone else want to do this I would have to do it myself.. :-(
> 
> This would make the libs better for MiNT and MagiC as well,
> wouldn't it?
> 
> > 2) Fenix has (rather) good support for shared and dynamically loaded
> >    libraries. Adapting mintlibs to this ie splitting it into smaller
> >    libraries would also be a idea. 
> 
> This also looks like a good idea to me (although I can't presume
> to grasp all the implications).  Naturally, there would be a
> -DSTATIC compilation switch that would return the libs to their
> current behaviour?  Would it be conceivable that the MiNT kernel
> could be made to work with Fenix's model of shared, dynamically
> loaded libs?  (This is not to start a MiNT vs Fenix thread; it
> just seems reasonable to assume that the two will co-exist for
> some time.)

Yes it would be fairly simple to make Fenix libraries work with MiNT.

Regards Sven Karlsson