Adding reentrancy information to safety notes?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 31, 2014, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> I did not know malloc was required to be AS-safe for POSIX compliance.

Ugh.  Sorry, my bad, it's not.  malloc's AS-safety goal seems to have
jumped from "desirable" to "mandatory" in my mind :-(

> See: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html
> 2.4.3 Signal Actions.

> The list of functions does not list malloc.

Beware, that's a very old version of POSIX that you referenced above.
What led me to realize it was the use of the term "reentrant" there ;-)

Anyway, the corresponding table in current POSIX fails to list malloc as
AS-Safe just the same ;-)

> My pleasure. A list of examples helps not just you but future readers.

*nod*

Thanks, and happy GNU year to all!

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