[Bug libstdc++/16248] [3.5 Regression] recent concurrence.h chanes breaks mingw bootstrap

per at bothner dot com gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Tue Jun 29 18:56:00 GMT 2004


------- Additional Comments From per at bothner dot com  2004-06-29 18:46 -------
Subject: Re:  [3.5 Regression] recent concurrence.h chanes
 breaks mingw bootstrap

membar at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:


> If you look at the comments for the class in question (and also all occurrences 
> of the code that use this class), you see that the mutex is assumed to already 
> be initialized - it's sufficient to lock the mutex without doing any 
> initialization on it. That's why I created and used a new macro called 
> __glibcxx_mutex_lock_noinit for this purpose.

The mutex is *assumed* to be initialized, but it isn't until
__GTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT_FUNCTION is called.  And your patch fails
to do that.  The macro __glibcxx_mutex_define_initialized
defines a function NAME##once that calls __GTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT_FUNCTION
but no-body ever calls NAME##once.


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