On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:43 AM, Jerry DeLisle <jvdeli...@charter.net> wrote:
> On 06/05/2018 06:58 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: > >> Hi Nicolas, >> >> Because they were originally intended for the gfortran test suite, but I >>> couldn't run it there because of libpthread. I will change the numbering >>> scheme. >>> >> >> the way that libpthread dependency is currently handled seems weird to >> me: right now it is only dragged in via -fopenmp, although libgomp isn't >> otherwise used AFAICS. Is this really supposed to work this way? And >> what about targets that don't have pthreads? Isn't <gthr.h> supposed to >> abstract away from the details of the underlying threading library? >> > > From my perspective, since async is a feature of the language it should > not require any special flags, just link to pthread always. > > If a user does not use it, it will most likely be optimized out. > > Jerry > This has the disadvantage that then the library will always use pthread stuff also for single-threaded programs, where we now use the stubbed-out dummy implementations which are faster. -- Janne Blomqvist
