A C Thread Library for Multiprocessors

This document describes the interface and implementation of a user-level thread library for several computer systems. The purpose of this library is to allow programmers to develop high-performance, concurrent applications that are easily ported to future MACH-based machines. Thus, differences between the `standard' Mach C thread library package and this library have been minimized. School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332--0280 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Differences from Mach C Threads 3 3 Threads - Implementation Comments 7 4 A Monitor Implementation with Threads 8 5 Explicated Simple CThreads Program 9 A Thread Library Details - C Interface 15 B Implementation on other Architectures 24 B.1 Sequent : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 24 B.2 Sun : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 24 C CThreads-related functions and ..