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Re: [PATCH 10/17] Regex: Portability to non-GCC compilers.
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 10:16 AM, Arnold Robbins wrote:
> > +#if !defined(__GNUC__) || __GNUC__ < 3
> > + static short utf8_sb_map_inited = 0;
> > +
> > + if (! utf8_sb_map_inited)
> > + {
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + utf8_sb_map_inited = 0;
> > + for (i = 0; i <= 0x80 / BITSET_WORD_BITS - 1; i++)
> > + utf8_sb_map[i] = BITSET_WORD_MAX;
> > + }
> > +#endif
>
> This doesn't look like a good idea because it's not thread-safe.
Is the rest of regex thread safe?
I've no objection to something else that does the trick for GLIBC.
Gawk doesn't have multiple threads.
Thanks,
Arnold