Contents

• Things I need to write about
• C-with-Ease language definition
  • Process control
  • Communication
    • Context declaration
    • Context initialization
    • Context migration
    • Context termination
    • Context interactions
    • Reply context operations
    • Select statement
  • An example program
    • Portability Issues
• C++-with-Ease language definition
  • Process control
  • Communication
    • Context declaration
    • Context initialization
    • Context migration
    • Context termination
    • Context interactions
    • Reply context operations
    • Select statement
  • Data Marshalling
    • The mStream class
    • The umStream class
  • An example program
    • Portability Issues
• Evaluation of Ease
• Implementation
  • Host model
    • Shared memory
    • Distributed memory
  • Process Implementation
    • Syntax and code generation
    • Process Function Declarations
    • Process Function Declarations in C++ -with-Ease
    • Process Messages
  • Context Implementation
    • Context Code Translation
    • Context Initialization
    • Connecting Process to Context
    • Context Data Handling
    • Messages
  • Select Implementation
    • Code generation
    • Handling a select
    • Select Messages
    • Request Handling
  • Scheduling
    • Non-Preemptive Threads
    • Preemptive Threads
    • Scheduler Interface
  • Handling C++
  • Porting C-with-Ease
    • Host Interface
      • Basic interface
      • Thread Handling Interface
      • Message Passing Interface
• Compiling and running programs
  • Runtime options
  • Platform dependant information
    • µSystem
    • PVM
• About this document ...