Consensus: data-race freedom as default for glibc code

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Nov 24 15:25:00 GMT 2014


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 about 
parallelism, not concurrency :-).

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security



More information about the Libc-alpha mailing list