This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: malloc patch for 2.2.4
Hello,
> Would you mind explaining how this improves thread safety?
Jakub explained the issue nicely. I actually saw the NULL-setting
problem on Solaris and it doesn't happen any more with the patch
installed.
> And in fact, I can see it still being
> thread-unsafe if copying a function pointer is non-atomic. Isn't that
> the case on, say, ia64?
If that would be the case, _many_ other things would break as well.
Regards,
Wolfram.