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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: Ada Threads?  Any work out there?
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Date: 10 Dec 90 01:38:06 GMT
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In article <5450.276138f0@zeus.unomaha.edu> svehla@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
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>Can anyone tell me if there is any work being done to design and implement an
>Ada based Threads package similiar to the C threads?  I am considering doing
>just that and wondered if anyone has already taken the lead.

I strongly suspect that any work you do in this area will be very quickly
superseded by POSIX 1003.4a.  This standard should provide a language
independant threads standard for all Unix/Mach implementations.  Ada is
a specific target language.

A implementation of POSIX 1003.4a-Draft 4 is included with OSF/1, though
I don't think an Ada binding is.  My guess is that hardware vendors will
start shipping real OSF/1 around a year from now.  Software developers
probably should be able to get it in the early spring.

regards,
fletcher


Fletcher E. Kittredge
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