Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:46:27 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Cc: arundel@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/150959: [libc] Stub pthread_once in libc should call _libc_once Message-ID: <201009271146.28000.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009261711.o8QHBqSR064732@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201009261711.o8QHBqSR064732@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:11:52 pm arundel@freebsd.org wrote: > Old Synopsis: Stub pthread_once in libc should call _libc_once > New Synopsis: [libc] Stub pthread_once in libc should call _libc_once > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-threads > Responsible-Changed-By: arundel > Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 26 17:08:28 UTC 2010 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to maintainer(s). As you note in the history, libstdc++ depends on this behavior, so it is not likely to be changed. Possibly changing the stub to always return an error would be ok, except that POSIX defines no errors for pthread_once(). Note that this behavior also matches Solaris apparently: (From /usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/gthr-default.h) #if __GXX_WEAK__ && _GLIBCXX_GTHREAD_USE_WEAK /* On Solaris 2.6 up to 9, the libc exposes a POSIX threads interface even if -pthreads is not specified. The functions are dummies and most return an error value. However pthread_once returns 0 without invoking the routine it is passed so we cannot pretend that the interface is active if -pthreads is not specified. On Solaris 2.5.1, the interface is not exposed at all so we need to play the usual game with weak symbols. On Solaris 10 and up, a working interface is always exposed. On FreeBSD 6 and later, libc also exposes a dummy POSIX threads interface, similar to what Solaris 2.6 up to 9 does. FreeBSD >= 700014 even provides a pthread_cancel stub in libc, which means the alternate __gthread_active_p below cannot be used there. */ #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || (defined(__sun) && defined(__svr4__)) To be honest, I would favor libc exporting '__isthreaded' in some fashion so that libstdc++ could depend on that instead. I think the symbol is already public so that libthr can set it. -- John Baldwin
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