>
> No. I don't think any of the _r functions are needed, so long
> as the results are not cached by pointer instead of a copy,
> before passing them from one thread to another. It's a risk on
> the clobber case of a call with a cached reference outstanding
> but not processed by another thread which is not an issue with
> the _r functions, which require that you pass the storage down.
>
> Of course, if you pass down per thread storage, you could have
> the same problem if you didn't copy rather than reference the
> results before passing to another thread by address.
>
> Given that, per thread allocations ("thread local storage")
> makes more sense than allocate/free fights between threads
> based on who's responsible for owning the memory after an
> inter-thread call. 8-).
>
> -- Terry
localtime() etc. are candidate to make them use per thread
storage.
David Xu
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