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+/*
+ Copyright (C) 2014 John Emmas
+
+ 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
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+*/
+
+#ifndef __waves_pthread_utils__
+#define __waves_pthread_utils__
+
+/* Accommodate thread setting (and testing) for both
+ * 'libpthread' and 'libpthread_win32' (whose implementations
+ * of 'pthread_t' are subtlely different)
+ */
+#ifndef PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#define PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#ifdef PTW32_VERSION /* pthread_win32 */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID) threadID.p=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID) threadID.p!=0
+#else /* normal pthread */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID) threadID=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID) threadID!=0
+#endif /* PTW32_VERSION */
+
+#endif /* PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED */
+#endif /* __waves_pthread_utils__ */
#ifndef __pbd_pthread_utils__
#define __pbd_pthread_utils__
+/* Accommodate thread setting (and testing) for both
+ * 'libpthread' and 'libpthread_win32' (whose implementations
+ * of 'pthread_t' are subtlely different)
+ */
+#ifndef PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#define PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#ifdef PTW32_VERSION /* pthread_win32 */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID) threadID.p=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID) threadID.p!=0
+#else /* normal pthread */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID) threadID=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID) threadID!=0
+#endif /* PTW32_VERSION */
+#endif /* PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED */
+
#ifdef COMPILER_MSVC
#include <ardourext/pthread.h>
#else