Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sunday, November 4, 2007 - 10:45 am

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Bart Van Assche wrote:

I am told that the gcc people realized that was indeed a bug (people were 
able to show problems even in non-threaded environments with mprotect()), 
and have now fixed it in the current gcc sources. That still leaves the 
old versions with potential problems, but I think it makes it much less 
interesting to audit for these things.

		Linus
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Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Oct 26, 7:40 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 8:09 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 8:27 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Oct 26, 8:34 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 9:28 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Oct 26, 10:07 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Oct 26, 10:12 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 10:25 am)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, David Schwartz, (Fri Oct 26, 11:06 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Alan Cox, (Fri Oct 26, 11:08 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 11:14 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andi Kleen, (Fri Oct 26, 1:39 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Giacomo Catenazzi, (Fri Oct 26, 2:45 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 3:24 pm)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Tue Oct 30, 3:20 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Nov 2, 8:29 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Nov 2, 8:38 am)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, David Schwartz, (Fri Nov 2, 10:18 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Nov 4, 8:13 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Nov 4, 10:45 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Sun Nov 4, 10:58 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Nov 4, 11:06 am)