Re: Regression test for thread safety?

[Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:51:39PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > I did some experiments to measure how effective these tests are
> > at detecting thread safety problems.  First, I tested whether
> > compiling with -D_NOTHREADS disabled locking.  As expected,
> >  g++-3.0 -E t.C | grep -i __lock_instance
> > showed hits,  but adding -D_NOTHREADS showed no hits.
>
> Something you should know if you haven't discovered it since your email:
> turning thread support on and off is only supported by the command-line flags
> like "-pthread" or "-mthreads" or whatever is appropriate for your platform.
> Preprocessor symbol hacks like _NOTHREADS were never documented and aren't
> really supported.
Certainly.  However, turning on _NOTHREADS does exactly what I want
at the moment: it defeats locking.  (Kids, don't try this at home
unless you've done your homework.)
- Dan