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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:06:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: switch to non-zero PTHREAD_*_INITIALIZER
Message-ID:  <93026.1549883184@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20190211103807.GX24863@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <92707.1549878222@critter.freebsd.dk> <20190211103807.GX24863@kib.kiev.ua>

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In message <20190211103807.GX24863@kib.kiev.ua>, Konstantin Belousov write=
s:
>On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:43:42AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Right now most of our PTHREAD_*_INITIALIZER macros are defined as NULL.
>> =

>> This is a bad choice from a code quality point of view, because it mean=
s
>> that
>> =

>> 	pthread_t my_mutex;
>> =

>> and
>> =

>> 	pthread_t my_mutes =3D PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
>> =

>> act the same, which they are not.
>> =

>> I suggest that we should change the macros to a non-NULL value, and
>> add a check for NULL values which emit a warning about the lack of
>> initialization.
>> =

>> Comments ?
>
>This would make the startup (or more) of current binaries too noisy and
>perhaps even break the applications that depend on specific output from
>the subordinate processes.

Right, we probably should make it tweakable with something like /etc/mallo=
c.conf.


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