Re: Can we go GTK-only?

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Nov 02 2016, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Should", not "will".  And on some systems, only with very recent
>> library versions.
>
> Again: which system are you think of that's had a buggy
> malloc-with-threads in the last, say, ten years?

GNU libc on Linux in 2008, it seems:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6952

(Just providing the link, personally I think that even with such bugs it
it safe to assume a threadsafe malloc both then and now. Otherwise you
may just as well assume that nothing works anywhere at all).

Best,
Nikolaus


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