------- Comment #35 from marc dot waeckerlin at siemens dot com 2005-11-29
09:13 -------
I had a look in google about "#ifdef _REENTRANT", and it gets about 20'200
entries, so this is a widely used funtinality that must not be broken!
Imagine all the code the does the "#ifdef _REENTRANT" to enable threading: If
now _REENTRANT is always true, regardless of whether -pthreads is given or not,
then all this code will crash when compiled with gcc += 3.4!
This is really a severe problem!
Please return to the previous behaviour of _REENTRANT, and fix it for those
platforms, where it previousely did not work (s390x and ia64).
The _REENTRANT must work as 90% of the programmers expect it to work! It wasn't
my idea to look for _REENTRANT, i learnt it from a collegue who has seen it in
system C libraries and e.g. the QpThread library. It is a widely used feature!
It must neither be broken, nor be replaced by something else, sich as
__GCC_PTHREADS__ or the like!
In errno.h, AFAIK they also tested for _REENTRANT, now they test for:
# if !defined _LIBC || defined _LIBC_REENTRANT
Is this an acceptable way to do it now, test for _LIBC_REENTRANT?
Reentrant is also used in /usr/include/features.h:
/* These are defined by the user (or the compiler)
to specify the desired environment:
[...]
_REENTRANT Select additionally reentrant object.
_THREAD_SAFE Same as _REENTRANT, often used by other systems.
[...]
*/
--> So it should be set correctly by the compiler!!!!
#if defined _REENTRANT || defined _THREAD_SAFE
# define __USE_REENTRANT 1
#endif
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11953
