Re: Rseq registration: Google tcmalloc vs glibc

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Thu Feb 27 2020 - 05:32:56 EST


* Szabolcs Nagy:

> On 26/02/2020 18:56, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> ----- On Feb 26, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Chris Kennelly ckennelly@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I agree that this could potentially violate inviarants, but
>>> InitFastPerCpu is not intended to be called by the application.
>>
>> OK, explicitly documenting this would be a good thing. In my own projects,
>> I prefix those symbols with double-underscores (__) to indicate that those
>> are not meant to be called by other means than the static inlines in the API.
>
> use a different convention for that, __ prefix is always
> reserved for the implementation for arbitrary use.

tcmalloc is *not* the implementation in that sense. It must not use the
__ prefix for its identifiers.

Thanks,
Florian