Re: [Gomp-discuss] Plan ... coments wanted !

[Biagio Lucini]

On 29 Jan 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> Op wo 29-01-2003, om 16:04 schreef Biagio Lucini:
> 
> I just mean to say that it may be a better plan not to rely on NPTL (as
> good as it may be, it sure looks good) because most people just don't
> have it yet and probably won't have it for a while either.  Therefore,
> to say that all GNU software will go there "in the near future" just
> seems a little too optimistic to me.
> 
> It is an interesting discussion point which library we should target
> first.  IMO it should be one that most people in our "target audience"
> have at their disposal.  I guess that would be LinuxThreads, and since
> NPTL is mostly backward compatible with that library, I would like to
> see the first low-level runtime should be based on LinuxThreads.
> 

I'm perfectly fine with LinuxThreads and I realize that NPTL is a bit new,
but the problem is that gcc is not suppose to run just on Linux, so a
general threading model would be better.

Any thoughts?

Biagio