Go back to Py_CAN_START_THREADS

Author: colesbury

Include/pyport.h

@@ -470,6 +470,14 @@ extern "C" {
 #  define WITH_THREAD
 #endif
 
+/* Some WebAssembly platforms do not provide a working pthread implementation.
+ * Thread support is stubbed and any attempt to create a new thread fails.
+ */
+#if (!defined(HAVE_PTHREAD_STUBS) && \
+      (!defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) || defined(__EMSCRIPTEN_PTHREADS__)))
+#  define Py_CAN_START_THREADS 1
+#endif
+
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
 #  ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
 #    ifdef HAVE_THREAD_LOCAL

Modules/_testinternalcapi/test_critical_sections.c

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ thread_critical_sections(void *arg)
     }
 }
 
-#ifndef HAVE_PTHREAD_STUBS
+#ifdef Py_CAN_START_THREADS
 static PyObject *
 test_critical_sections_threads(PyObject *self, PyObject *Py_UNUSED(args))
 {
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static PyMethodDef test_methods[] = {
     {"test_critical_sections", test_critical_sections, METH_NOARGS},
     {"test_critical_sections_nest", test_critical_sections_nest, METH_NOARGS},
     {"test_critical_sections_suspend", test_critical_sections_suspend, METH_NOARGS},
-#ifndef HAVE_PTHREAD_STUBS
+#ifdef Py_CAN_START_THREADS
     {"test_critical_sections_threads", test_critical_sections_threads, METH_NOARGS},
 #endif
     {NULL, NULL} /* sentinel */