Why __gthread_active_p() is checked only in few functions?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 29 September 2014 16:41, niXman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I trying to understand why '__gthread_active_p()' is checked only in few
> functions, and why exactly in this functions?
>
> For example, '__gthread_active_p()' is used in
> '__gthread_mutex_init_function()' but not used for example in
> '__gthread_[g|s]etspecific()'? Why?



Some of the functions are short and calling them without active
threads does nothing, so there's no need to check.
__ghtread_mutex_init_function makes several calls, so if they are all
going to do nothing then there's no point calling any of them.