Re: [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>>
>>> Another problem with the proposed patch is that there is no
>>> declaration for attr_start() before the call in compat/mingw.c. We
>>> would have to move the declaration of attr_start() to cache.h (for
>>> example), because #including attr.h in compat/mingw.c is plainly
>>> wrong. However, it would not be a major offense to #include attr.h in
>>> common-main.c. But when we do that, we can certainly spare the few
>>> cycles to call pthread_mutex_init.
>>
>> That sounds like a good argument to have it in common-main.c.
>
> If we're going that route, I would get rid of PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITILIZER
> and call a pthread_mutex_init platform independently.

Yup, but earlier j6t was trying hard not to penalize any single
platform, and that would certainly penalize the ones with static
initialization, so I was hoping to hear if there is a clever
workaround to avoid that.

>> Would it mean that the code that defines the mutex needs to have
>> #ifdef that defines a no-op attr_start() and defines the mutex with
>> PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITILIZER with #else that just defines the mutex
>> without initializatin, with the real attr_start(), though?