RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

[Andrew Haley]

David Schwartz writes:
 > 
 > > Well, yeah.  I know what you mean.  However, at this moment, some
 > > gcc developers are trying really hard not to be total d*ckheads
 > > about this issue, but get gcc fixed.  Give us a chance.
 > 
 > Can we get some kind of consensus that 'optimizations' that add
 > writes to any object that the programmer might have taken the
 > address of are invalid on any platform that supports memory
 > protection?

That's what the proposed standard language says, kinda-sorta.  There's
an informal description at
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2338.html.

Anyway, we have fixed this bug and are committing it to all open gcc
branches.  Credit to Ian Taylor for writing the patch.

Andrew.

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