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

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Biago Lucini wrote:
> 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.

I agree. While Linux is a "convenient" target, I don't think we want to
exclude other operating systems. One of gcc's strengths is its platform
independence; we would likely get resistance from the gcc maintainers if we
were to make OpenMP exclusive to Linux.

..Scott