sizeof() segfault and mutex initialization?

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:29:00PM +0100, Stefan Olsson wrote:
> 
> 2) gthr does not implement a __gthread_mutex_init () function, only a 
> static initializer. However we need to create 1-n mutexes - one per bin 
> - during initialization code.

Okay.

> Is it possible/ok to call __gthread_objc_mutex_allocate?

No/no.  They aren't available to C++.  But we can define one ourselves,
or maybe (doubtful) add one to the gthr-*.h files.

> How can this be done?

You can do a malloc followed by __GTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT_FUNCTION.  Look at
the messy code I just committed to config/cpu/generic/atomicity.h and the
bottom of src/misc-inst.cc for how some of that works.


Phil

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