On 01/09/05, Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz@chello.at> wrote:
Matt Hurd schrieb:
Yep. TLS should be in level 0 I'd think if we can squeeze it in without too much effort. I think some simple thread priority stuff, along with a platform specific thread id, can slip in too without much ado as well. These seem to be FAQs.
Not sure about this. I think the TLS could very well reside in a separate unit. It is almost orthogonal to threads. Of course there is a minor dependancy, but that could be easily solved by introduction of an at_exit_thread mechanism. (Which by the way is already used under the hoods.) On the other hand the concept of thread id's can be based on an extended version of TLS. I already submitted a draft of this that can be found in my thread alert submission. So in some sense there might be some dependancy from threads upon TLS.
We'll see how we travel. Just getting the current interface rewritten will be a start. I do hope we can take that momentum and tackle the other needs quickly.
I'll organise a central point by early next week and start a doc if agreed. I'd prefer something like an open office doc to a wiki. Changes can be annotated, filtered back and accepted and re-published to the site as a doc and as html. I'm a bit of a dinosaur w.r.t. to this new fangled wiki stuff...
Fine! But I am not sure if switching to open office will set some additional barriers for others. Why not simply using the infrastucture that is already there? There is already a wiki installed, and there is also a thread section in it. Could we give it a try? Also introducing a new method might only artificially increase the ever present unavoidable entropy. I think we rather should put energy in it to decrease it (at least locally ;-)
I'll check out the wiki.
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The main part that scares me is the trickiness of the static linking win32 issues.
I am in a good position to deal with these issues, since it was me who contributed the static linking code parts.
Super!
But what I see as a first major challenge is how to organize the library to split <snip> agree to the split directories, see earlier response to later post.
matt.