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Re: [PATCH] Fix quick_exit to match C++11 specification.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: Johan Karlsson <johan dot karlsson at enea dot com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 03:50:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix quick_exit to match C++11 specification.
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On 06/07/2016 02:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> I don't quite follow.
>>
>> It is the call to exit, _Exit/_exit, or quick_exit which decides
>> the sequence of process termination actions.
>
> Well yes, in your implementation of the compat symbol. But it doesn't
> has to be this way, and it may not be the âcorrectâ approach.
>
>> Particularly in C++ the quick_exit call must not run destructors
>> for thread local objects, since the standard mandates that.
>>
>> Changing __cxa_thread_atexit_impl would be more complicated than
>> just changing quick_exit.
>
> I put âcorrectâ in scare quotes because I'm not convinced that we'd
> need a compat symbol at all for this (but if we do, it probably
> should be put on the registration, storing a flag along with callback
> registration data).
What do we gain by this?
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Cheers,
Carlos.