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

[Steven Bosscher]

Op wo 29-01-2003, om 16:04 schreef Biagio Lucini:
> On 29 Jan 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 
> > If you an provide us all with a copy of Redhat 8.x  ;-)  I can't afford
> > to buy/download a recent distro and upgrade all the time.  And I'm
> > pretty sure they won't let me at work.
> > 
> 
> Uhm... sorry to have to say that! ORDER!
> 
> Diego can't be held responsible for RH policies, he is just here to help!
> 
> Biagio

Oh, there was absolutely no insult intended, my excuses if it sounded
like that (<shrinks to the size of your thumb> I guess it did :-( ).

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.

It would even be better if we knew how manu thread models are in use and
how they differ.  I would volunteer if I knew where to start...

Greetz
Steven