[Gomp-discuss] Library foundation?

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Biagio Lucini wrote:
> Question: will our library be some OpenMP -> NPTL (or whatever POSIX we
> choose) interface or do we want to go dirtier into low-level programming?

Much as I like the Native Posix Thread Library, my understanding is that 
it is a superset of POSIX; I think we'll want to find a common "core", 
and only use NPTL-specific code when compiling for Linux.

Are we going to require a POSIX-compatible system? Everything I work 
with has a POSIX layer, but I'm certain that's not universal across the 
realm of GNU.

For a first implementation, I think we can avoid low-level programming. 
We can always implement platform-specific code later, as warranted by 
performance and available hardware.

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