From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-29 07:56:27
>The circumstances under which this macro is tested is a bit strange.
Looking
>at its testcase, boost_has_pthread_ma_gt.cxx, one isn't sure whether we're
>testing for the existence of pthread_mutexattr_settype or
>pthread_mutexattr_gettype. It turns out that there are platforms where one
>exists but the other does not (FreeBSD 3.4 has the "set" but not the
"get").
Looks more like I've overspecified the test case - the thread lib only uses
pthread_mutexattr_settype, so I guess that's all we should test.
- John Maddock
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