[PATCH 1/3 v5] src: Add threadlib library for parallel job execution

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Aaron,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 11:20:52PM -0400, Aaron Merey wrote:
> Add new internal static library libthread.a that provides infrastructure
> for eu-* tools to run functions concurrently using pthreads.
> 
> threadlib.c manages per-job threads as well as per-job buffers for stdout
> output.  Output for each job is printed to stdout in the order that the
> jobs were added to the job queue.  This helps preserve the order of
> output when parallelization is added to an eu-* tool.
> 
> threadlib.h declares functions add_job and run_jobs. Jobs are added to
> a threadlib.c internal job queue using add_job. run_jobs concurrently
> executes jobs in parallel.
> 
> eu-readelf now links against libthread.a when elfutils is configured
> with --enable-thread-safety.
> 
> 	* src/Makefile.am: libthread.a is compiled and and linked with
> 	readelf when USE_LOCKS is defined.
> 	* src/threadlib.c: New file. Manages job creation, concurrent
> 	execution and output handling.
> 	* src/threadlib.h: New file. Declares functions add_job and
> 	run_jobs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
> ---
> v5: No changes. 

Still looks good.

Thanks,

Mark