Re: Can we go GTK-only?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:46:30 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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.
> 

I am having trouble believing this is really the case. Essentially
all threaded software would break if required libc library calls
weren't thread safe. Could you please point at a specific
example of this having happened on a platform built after the mid
1990s?

Perry
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