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Re: [RFA] enable dynamic (thread safe) reents
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:12:16PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>
>>While single threaded apps should keep run without problems (_impure_ptr
>>is still used for the mainthread) multithreaded apps should be recompiled
>>to get the full power of the thread safe reents. This is due the
>>fact that _RRENT is used in some newlib headers directly. Unfortunately
>>this affects also static libs, therefore this is will be a longer
>>transition.
>>
>
>TTTT,
>
>this will only affect stdio
>
>stdio.h:147:#define stdin (_REENT->_stdin)
>stdio.h:148:#define stdout (_REENT->_stdout)
>stdio.h:149:#define stderr (_REENT->_stderr)
>
>and i consider this harmless.
Does this imply that using a DLL rebuilt like this will require recompilation
of static libraries using errno?
cgf