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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:02:17 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
Message-ID:  <85477.1324155737@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:31:26 %2B0200." <20111216223126.GX50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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In message <20111216223126.GX50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov 
writes:

>> 	http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
>BTW, it looks not very useful to add a bunch of threading functions
>without at least trying to specify the memory model.

I have never fully understood what goal these sequential obesity-binges
from ISO-C serve.

Structure packing ?

Nahh, nobody uses that.

Big/Little Endian API ?

Naah, nobody moves binary data between computers.

Ohhh, but I know:  Lets make a rival to the POSIX threads, we can do it
much better and slightly incompatible, big market there I'm sure.

What ?

A "assert mutex is held" facility ?

Why would you want that ?  Just write perfect code to begin with!

Bang! Bang! Bang! &c &c...

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