Subj : Re: pthread_create and memory
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Mar 14 2005 07:42 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:jgsZd.61937$Bk7.51693@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> David Schwartz wrote:

>>     If the OS did support that, then the language *would* duplicate that 
>> functionality. I argued that the language must provide that 
>> functionality, you are arguing that the thread abstraction should 
>> duplicate it.

> By "duplicate" I meant "reimplement". A language implementation may need
> to repackage the OS APIs in a way suitable for that language, but it 
> should
> not need to reimplement the basic functionality.

    You miss my point. My point is that the functionality must be in the 
application code, therefore, it's redundant to implement it anywhere else in 
addition.

    DS

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