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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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