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David Xu wrote:

> Petri Helenius wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm still having issues with profiling (-pg) enabled and issuing 
>> mallocs and frees from different threads. The same code runs for 
>> weeks/months unprofiled. (on dual or quad cpu machines topped up)
>>
>> Pete
>
>
>
> The .mcount in userland is not thread safe, it should be fixed,
> but I don't know when will be.

Is there a workaround or would it be (with the appropriate performance 
penalty) be "fixed" with a simple mutex?

Pete