Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-02 Thread Kennith Caudill
1.) Processor affinity with C++11 threads Will there be a standard non-hackish way to set processor affinity on C++11 std::threads? This would be a great feature imho. I admit that I haven't researched this and maybe it's possible to use the pthreads API to accomplish this but I'd prefer a mor

Re: Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-03 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2013-05-03 03:08, Kennith Caudill wrote: 1.) Processor affinity with C++11 threads Will there be a standard non-hackish way to set processor affinity on C++11 std::threads? This would be a great feature imho. I admit that I haven't researched this and maybe it's possible to use the pthread

Re: Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-03 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Den 03/05/2013 kl. 03.08 skrev Kennith Caudill : > 2.) Alternative linkers > > Is there a document available detailing the current feasible linkers and > their status? Not that I'm aware of. mclinker is work in progress and is not yet able to link the kernel. gold should work, but I'm not awar

Re: Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-03 Thread David Chisnall
On 3 May 2013, at 13:52, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Not that I'm aware of. mclinker is work in progress and is not yet able to > link the kernel. gold should work, but I'm not aware that LTO linking has > been tested to work. I spoke to Diana Chen, who works on MCLinker, on Monday and apparentl

Re: Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; El 03/05/2013 5:30 a. m., Dimitry Andric escribió: ... 2.) Alternative linkers Is there a document available detailing the current feasible linkers and their status? e.g., is it possible to build a working system with mclinker, gold, etc., and what is the process for accomplishing thi

Re: Miscellaneous questions

2013-05-04 Thread David Chisnall
On 3 May 2013, at 20:03, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > FWIW, The Solaris people have lived with the problem of supporting > alternative linkers for a while and they came up with LD_ALTEXEC: > > http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/03/using-the-gnu-ld-linker-on-solaris/ > > There even appears to