From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d15593422d51c99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: simon@pogner.demon.co.uk (Simon Wright) Subject: Re: Threads on DEC Ada for Alpha Date: 1996/07/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 164015281 x-nntp-posting-host: pogner.demon.co.uk references: <4qmmjr$fqa@crl.crl.com> <31D28A2D.4C75B287@swthom.enet.dec.com> organization: At Home newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Simon Wright wrote: > > > > On a related topic, I see that the "pthreads" in DEC Unix aren't the > > same as the "pthreads" used in glibc (from Chris Provenzano) and which > > support tasking in GNAT for Linux. > > I do not know what are the pthreads you are talking about. When I write > "pthreads", I mean POSIX threads. Digital UNIX implements native POSIX > threads, without having to install anything. Digital UNIX V4.0 implements > the final standard 1003.1c (1995 standard). Previous versions, up to and > including V3.2, implemented 1003.4a draft 4. The GNAT tasking support implemented for Linux uses a version of POSIX threads made by Chris Provenzano which says it is "based on" 1003.1c 1995. It is at sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads. The reason for considering it for DU is that, in all the releases I have available, the pthreads support doesn't supply what the Linux GNAT runtime requires. Thanks for letting me know why! -- Simon Wright Work Email: simon.j.wright@gecm.com Ferranti Naval Systems Voice: +44(0)1705-701778 GEC-Marconi S3I Combat Systems Division FAX: +44(0)1705-701800