[PATCH] Async signal safe TLS accesses

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Sun Dec 1 01:45:00 GMT 2013


On Nov 30, 2013, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:

> Pointer-to-pointer allocation interfaces should be Considered Harmful
> because they encourage UB via aliasing violations of the form:

> 	char *p;
> 	posix_memalign((void **)&p, a, n);

Heh.  True enough.  I *almost* mentioned this aliasing problem myself
;-)

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