Re: [Gomp-discuss] .. and the other bits

[Pop Sébastian]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:18:06PM +0000, Biagio Lucini wrote:
> We are now focusing on the directive part of the problem, but OpenMp is
> also made of other two parts: library functions and environment variables.
> 
> Probably for the library functions it would be enough to write wrappers
> around the standard posix thread library, but I am not really an expert,
> so if anybody see something wrong with that...
> 
> The difficult part to me seems to be the environment variables. Leaving
> aside for a moment OS's that does not have this concept and focusing on
> Unix, is there an OS-free way of determining the environment?
> 

I have no idea for this, except that PVM supports lots of OSes and uses
environement variables for some of its initializations.  Maybe we could have 
a look at its source code when we'll need this...