Exceptions and thread safety

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 22, 2000, Anjul Srivastava <anjul.srivastava@sanchez.com> wrote:

> I am told that exception handling in gcc is not thread safe.

It is, as long as GCC is configured/built with --enable-threads, on
targets that support it.  Search for `enable_threads' in
gcc/configure.in for the complete list of all platforms in which GCC
supports thread-safe exception handling.

> I am not sure what this precisely means, but I would imagine that if
> you have two threads and both enter exception handling code, then
> something nasty will happen.
 
I think that's a reasonable definition.

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