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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS?
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 10/09/2011 17:19, Simon Wright a écrit :
>> It used to be that you could configure GNAT to use a tasking RTS that
>> didn't use threads; tasks were scheduled entirely within the RTS. I
>> think these may be called 'green threads'[1]. Of course, this meant that
>> blocking on I/O would block the whole program, but for some purposes it
>> might be ideal.

> No, it used the FSU threads

Thanks, all, for that.

>From the Changelog for FSF GCC:

2005-02-09  
	* gnat_ugn.texi: Remove all mentions of FSU threads, which are no
	longer supported.