Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.programming.threads Subject: Re: Clarification for interface specification "C11 threads.h" Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:29:49 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5065EAFD.1050102@loria.fr> <5068B604.9020606@web.de> <5068C9C3.6090502@loria.fr> <50696193.3090503@web.de> <506966CA.6080308@loria.fr> <50696AF9.2000202@web.de> <50697B4C.1090203@loria.fr> <506BFF09.1090804@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5842a546a2d4559ed11e9ac4721da702"; logging-data="28169"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19VUR6w4n+Em0ppqUCvhpRF" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:egtjq12LWZKpR9NA92MubFufPSw= sha1:5eNdE7nR/6Z9icdQz62GqDxnnrU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:26972 comp.programming.threads:1168 Markus Elfring writes: >> The main difference is really the starting point of this discussion, >> the differing function types for threads. And this one is well >> justified from the POV of C, int is the type that you'd have >> to expect as a return from a thread, just as main returns an int >> to the environment. >> >> On my page for possible defects/improvements for C > > I am curious if you will get feedback by standardisation committee > members for your descriptions. > http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/defects-and-improvements/DR-underspecified-thread-functions.html > > Did you forward any of them to an "official" communication channel? [...] Posting to comp.std.c is *slightly* more likely to get the committee's attention than posting to comp.lang.c. The committee has no official relationship with either newsgroup, but comp.std.c has lower traffic and is likely to have more commmittee members reading it. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Will write code for food. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"