MT-safe exception and thread library

[Ulrich Drepper]

Teemu Torma <tot@Trema.COM> writes:

> It is not nice to use multilibs, but I am not sure if using weak
> symbols is that straightforward.  One problem that may arise is
> that MT code should usually be compiled with some preprocessor
> options (-D_REENTRANT for example), which also changes some other 
> things, at least how "errno" is defined.

No, a corect environment must not depend on -D_REENTRANT being
defined.  This is absolutely no problem if you use glibc on an ELF
system and therefore HJ's proposal is the only acceptable for these
systems.

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