On 30 April 2013 01:34, NightStrike wrote: > I'm a little confused on the documentation of the -pthread option. > I'm posting to gcc-help because I assume by default that I'm just > misunderstand things :) > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Option-Index.html > > On that page, if you scroll down to pthread, the option appears to > only apply to a couple of weird targets: > > Solaris 2 > RS/6000 > PowerPC > > But yet I've used this on many platforms, and I have found it to be > required to use pthreads on linux. Am I reading the docs wrong? No, the docs are just incomplete, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16519