From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: raeburn@raeburn.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we go GTK-only?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 08:55:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <340B9D49-8AE6-4E11-99B8-04E67BEB721A@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lgx1naph.fsf@gnu.org>
On November 2, 2016 8:49:30 AM PDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 22:26:06 -0400
>> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, raeburn@raeburn.org,
>> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> > > You categorically stated that memory allocation off the main
>> > > thread is unsafe.
>> >
>> > No, I didn't.
>>
>> You were saying platforms exist where Emacs runs and malloc() is not
>> thread safe mere hours ago.
>
>No, I said some of them had thread-related bugs reported as recently
>as few years ago. Which means they only recently became or are
>becoming mature enough.
>
>> However, might we take this as meaning that you now agree that
>> malloc() is indeed thread safe?
>
>Theoretically, yes. In practice, see above.
In practice it's safe as well. Nobody else is developing software under the assumption that libc malloc is not thread safe.
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-27 19:54 Can we go GTK-only? Daniel Colascione
2016-10-27 20:05 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-27 20:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-27 21:08 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-27 20:32 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-27 23:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-28 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 2:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-28 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 7:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-28 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 10:48 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-28 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-30 14:43 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-30 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-30 22:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-30 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-31 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 0:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-10-31 8:24 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-31 16:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 8:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-10-31 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-31 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-31 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 17:54 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-31 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 18:22 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-31 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 21:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:28 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 19:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-01 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-01 17:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:41 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:56 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-01 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 19:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:20 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 20:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 2:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-02 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 15:55 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2016-11-02 5:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-11-02 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 3:43 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-11-03 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-02 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-02 19:25 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-11-02 19:25 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-11-02 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-03 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-02 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 3:29 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-03 18:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-03 22:07 ` John Wiegley
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