Re: Can we go GTK-only?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:22:02 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>  address@hidden
> 
> > And even for POSIX
> > platforms, you can find on the net reports about thread-unsafe
> > malloc up to 2013 and 2014.  That's not "very long time".
> 
> Are you sure this wasn't just a report from some people who linked
> with the wrong library?

Yes.

> The standard has required that malloc be thread safe as long as
> pthreads has been around IIRC.

Requiring is one thing; being able to implement it and weed out the
bugs is quite another.