Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> 
> Has it already been decided who will do this audit, and when this
> audit will happen ? Has a target date been set when this audit should
> be complete, or is the completion of this audit a requirement for the
> release of a specific gcc version ?

I am told that the gcc people realized that was indeed a bug (people were 
able to show problems even in non-threaded environments with mprotect()), 
and have now fixed it in the current gcc sources. That still leaves the 
old versions with potential problems, but I think it makes it much less 
interesting to audit for these things.

		Linus
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