mbsinit: Work around mingw bug.

[gnulib.git] / lib / glthread / thread.h

diff --git a/lib/glthread/thread.h b/lib/glthread/thread.h
index a04e4a4..5d72040 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/glthread/thread.h
+++ b/lib/glthread/thread.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Creating and controlling threads.
-   Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ extern int glthread_in_use (void);
 
 /* -------------------------- gl_thread_t datatype -------------------------- */
 
+/* This choice of gl_thread_t assumes that
+     pthread_equal (a, b)  is equivalent to  ((a) == (b)).
+   This is the case on all platforms in use in 2008.  */
 typedef pthread_t gl_thread_t;
 # define glthread_create(THREADP, FUNC, ARG) \
     (pthread_in_use () ? pthread_create (THREADP, NULL, FUNC, ARG) : ENOSYS)