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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:32:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        ben@timing.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: _REENTRANT in math.h & libm oddities. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10301231630590.17662-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200301232122.h0NLM31e003077@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.10301231601440.12720-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Daniel Eischen writes:
> : The gcc manpage is wrong.  It should state _REENTRANT instead of
> : _THREAD_SAFE.  POSIX specifies that _REENTRANT be defined to get
> : these functions.  I know that we always provide implementations
> : of most of these _r functions so it might not make sense to
> : #ifdef them in the header files, but I don't know that always
> : making them visible would be against the spec or cause namespace
> : pollution.
> 
> Then FreeBSD's source tree is basically wrong, since it uses
> _THREAD_SAFE for this in many places.  But most of them appear to be
> just defining the macro for compiles and such.  There's a little bit
> in libc's stdio still, but that's the only significant place that uses
> it in the tree.  I'm not sure about out-of-tree software.

I removed a lot of the _THREAD_SAFE stuff a couple of years ago,
but it wasn't complete removed.  -stable might be worse off.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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