Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000
by skissane on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:23PM
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> I am always surprised by the negativity that surrounds AIX by layperson UNIX users
I've never been particularly negative about AIX at all, but I've been burned before by some of its ugly warts [1]. In particular, the fact that (unlike other platforms) errno isn't thread-local by default, and you have to -D_THREAD_SAFE_ERRNO to get a thread-safe errno.
I've never been particularly negative about AIX at all, but I've been burned before by some of its ugly warts [1]. In particular, the fact that (unlike other platforms) errno isn't thread-local by default, and you have to -D_THREAD_SAFE_ERRNO to get a thread-safe errno.
[1] https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/issues/237