CodeWarrior No Be-All

August 1996 / Inbox / CodeWarrior No Be-All

In "The Be-All of Operating Systems" (May) you say, "Because of its Mac heritage, CodeWarrior has not traditionally generated thread-safe exceptions." This is Metrowerks' fault, not that of the Mac OS, which has had a threads library for many years. Apple ca nnot compel vendors to take advantage of Mac OS features; it's only fair that you castigate those vendors, not Apple, in print.
Maynard Handley
handleym@apple.com

We didn't intend to castigate anyone, but we should have made it clear that Metrowerks' past lack of thread support was a shortcoming of its compiler, not of the Mac OS.--Rex Baldazo, technical editor

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