* Gaius Mulley: >> The question is whether this is really necessary. Obviously, there is >> no requirement to ship all supporting code under the GPL version 3 or >> later for GCC. See the libffi subdirectory, which has its own >> license. > > sure I think it is looking sensible to stop using libpth. gm2 only > needs the two basic primitives create a context and switch to a context > in any case. Furthermore it only needs these if the user wants > coroutines. For most Modula-2 programs it isn't required.
One possibility would be to have an implementation based on the libgcc/gthr.h abstraction. It would not be very efficient if the user is looking for coroutines, but it would avoid a dependency on yet another thread library. Thanks, Florian
