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

[Diego Novillo]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> Op wo 29-01-2003, om 15:50 schreef Diego Novillo:
> > 
> > - The code generator should generate calls to a libgomp runtime
> >   that will map those calls to the lower-level runtime.  I
> >   suggest that we do the first lower-level runtime using the new
> >   posix threads (NPTL).  That's where all GNU software will go in
> >   the near future.  It's a natural target for glibc.
> 
> 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.
>
Oh, right!  I keep forgetting that NPTL is really rather new and
hasn't seen much exposure :)

But that is not very important either.  With time you can have N
backends for the different threading flavours of each
architecture.

The important thing is to be able to map the parallel semantics
that the generic libgomp runtime will want to the underlying
native threading layer.  Whatever that may be.


Diego.