gcc static constructor multi-threading flaw

Joe Buehler jbuehler@hekimian.com
Thu Mar 6 16:16:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Since neither gcc nor newlib have responded to this problem, I've
> added a wrapper in cygwin.  It will be in 1.3.21.

By the way, if I recall correctly, the real fix *has* to be made in gcc.
There is still a race in the gcc-generated code that can cause
double-destruction at process exit.

Your fix should eliminate the core dumps caused by atexit data structure
corruption, though.
-- 
Joe Buehler



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