Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

Linus Torvalds
2007-11-04T17:46:13Z

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