On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:23:22AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> Long story short... That program overrides malloc and returns memory
> that is only 8 bytes aligned. That creates problems for our pthreads,
> as rwlock code assumes that pthread_self() is 16-byte aligned and uses
> the lower bits
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:23:22 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> The two approaches I can think of are to use posix_memalign+memset
> instead of calloc and to use calloc and manually re-align the result.
>
> So either
>
> newthread = calloc(1, __pthread_st_size + ~RW_THREAD);
> if ((uintp
I just killed quite some time debugging a weird lockup I had with a
third party program under NetBSD.
Long story short... That program overrides malloc and returns memory
that is only 8 bytes aligned. That creates problems for our pthreads,
as rwlock code assumes that pthread_self() is 16-byte a
