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Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite
Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR> writes:
>> NGPT is dead, IBM recently announced that they stopped development.
>> You should look at NPTL instead.
>
> Interesting. So this shows that I actually should not look at anything
> until they are integrated and supported :-)
>
> Anyone knows the reason for stopping development of this library ?
NPTL is superior to NGPT and there's no need for two concurrenting
implementations.
>> There're initial patches for NPTL flying around for gdb,
>
> Thanks for the information. So we will continue keeping an eye on it...
> and wait some more, since NTPL does not seem to be quite ready yet.
But neither was NGPT - it only worked on a few platforms.
> Anyway, good to see that most people agree that the current linux threads
> implementation is not viable.
It's not that bad - but it's not POSIX compliant,
Andreas
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