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Re: Consensus: data-race freedom as default for glibc code

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:25:20 +0100
Subject: Re: Consensus: data-race freedom as default for glibc code
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On 11/24/2014 04:23 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:

  >   * Parallel algorithms implemented in glibc itself will be free from
  >     data races (as defined by C11 and its memory model) by default.


I changed it to:
* Concurrent code in glibc is free from data races (as defined by C11
and its memory model) by default.

Fine with me as well (although I think technically, this is aboutparallelism, not concurrency :-).


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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security

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