From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.15p now supports NPTL on Debian
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:17:09 +0200
Date: 2004-07-26T00:16:33+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iscbn34q.fsf@insalien.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sa4ekmzrcge.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au
Brian May writes:
>>>>>> "Ludovic" == Ludovic Brenta writes:
>
> Ludovic> Today, gnat 3.15p-10 arrived in Debian Unstable. In this
> Ludovic> upload, I have backported several fixes from GCC's main
> Ludovic> line of development. One of these fixes allows
> Ludovic> programmers to use Ada tasking with the New POSIX Thread
> Ludovic> Library (NPTL) as provided by Linux 2.6 and glibc 2.3.
> Ludovic> It is thus no longer necessary to use
> Ludovic> "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1" as before.
>
> What benefits does NPTL provide for Ada programs?
The benefits are not specific to Ada, but they are real. If you are
building a web or application server based on AWS, or any kind of
multithreaded server, you will be interested in NPTL. For an
overview, see:
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6753699732.html
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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2004-07-25 20:40 GNAT 3.15p now supports NPTL on Debian Ludovic Brenta
2004-07-25 20:58 ` Jeff C,
2004-07-25 21:42 ` Brian May
2004-07-25 22:17 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2004-07-26 10:41 ` Adrian Knoth
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