On 3/7/21 1:58 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
The mbrtowc modules states:
Link:
$(LIB_MBRTOWC)
Thanks for explaining that. Over time Gnulib has evolved and 'tar'
hadn't caught up with all those Link: lines. So I just now added
$(LIB_ACL), $(LIB_GETRANDOM), $(LIB_HARD_LOCALE), $(LIB_HAS_ACL),
> > * We establish a new macro GNULIB_MBTOWC_SINGLE which means "assume that
> > at most one thread invokes mbtowc-like functions". The mbtowc
> > replacement uses this instead of using USE_UNLOCKED_IO. Tar can #define
> > this new macro.
>
> I like this idea. The packages can then define or no
Hi Paul,
> > a general macro won't cut it e.g. for coreutils. coreutils
> > has multithreaded programs ('sort') next to single-threaded programs.
> > But coreutils wants to optimize wcwidth. GNULIB_WCHAR_SINGLE actually
> > means "assume that the locale has been set before the program becomes
> >
On 3/2/21 7:27 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
a general macro won't cut it e.g. for coreutils. coreutils
has multithreaded programs ('sort') next to single-threaded programs.
But coreutils wants to optimize wcwidth. GNULIB_WCHAR_SINGLE actually
means "assume that the locale has been set before the prog
Hi Paul,
Paul Eggert wrote:
> + * lib/mbtowc-lock.h (mbtowc_with_lock) [USE_UNLOCKED_IO]:
> + Don’t bother with locks, since this app is single-threaded.
We now have two C macros which indicate a single-threaded application:
* USE_UNLOCKED_IO, used
- for unlocked
- in regex
