C: Multithreading

Question

Is multithreading supported in C? If yes, then how do I try? Is there any open source library that lets me do it and is the library supported on Mac OS X?

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Answer 1

the new dialect - C1X, will offer multi-threading out of the box, as stated from wikipedia:

Multithreading support (_Thread_local storage-class specifier, header including thread creation/management functions, mutex, condition variable and thread-specific storage functionality, as well as the _Atomic type qualifier and for uninterruptible object access).

currently of courae as mentioned above, multi-threading is not supported in the newest dialect of c - C99