From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:01:20 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20110717070120.GA539@polynum.com> References: <20110715151535.GA2405@polynum.com> <20110715202157.GA5157@polynum.com> <20110716080247.GA394@polynum.com> <4E225986.2050408@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E225986.2050408@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] NUMA Topicbox-Message-UUID: 02f846a2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:39:50PM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 07/16/2011 04:02 AM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > > What is the minimal hints the programmer shall give? At least > > predicativity. I wonder what minimum set of keywords could be added, > > say, to C, so that the situation can be greatly improved without the > > burden being greatly increased. [non-predicative routines being, from > > a parallel point of view, atomic] > > Have a look at what the C1x standard is proposing wrt atomics. Thanks for the tip! BTW, if I understand correctly the purpose of the next C standard, I guess there is no urge for kencc to support C99 since it is already a transitory only partially supported standard. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C