C Language support for multiprocessor application environments

The purpose of this paper is to start the dialog that must inevitably precede making a clear decision on the emerging issue of support for multiprocessor applications. This paper is meant to define the problem, its terms and current solutions and some of the possible alternatives. This paper is not proposing a specific C language solution to language support for multiprocessor systems. There may not be a single language solution, and at this point support technology may still be viewed as not fully mature even though much of it is 25 plus years old.