Determining cancellation points in glibc
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Nov 27 19:17:00 GMT 2008
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 15:47:04 Loic Domaigne wrote:
> The next issue I see: POSIX states that the no other functions except
> the ones listed in the mandatory and optional list may be CP. So a
> natural question arise: how does the Glibc folks enforce this? Through
> code review? Other means, like compiler flags etc. ?
code review only atm for optional. due to the nesting Carlos highlights, it's
pretty hard to statically trace everything.
most mandatory points are checked with `nm` ... look at the nptl tests.
-mike
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