gcc 2.95.4 MT related crashes in basic_string class

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Karel Gardas <kgardas@objectsecurity.com> writes:

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| What I just would like to know is if there are/were really some MT related
| bugs/races in the old libstd++ as it's packaged in gcc2.95.4 for example
| on Debian 3.0:

Hi, 

  the C++ runtime support that shipped with GCC-2.95.x (epecially the
string implementation) is known not to work in multi-threading
environment.  GCC-3.x is much much better (even if the front-end is
slow).  

-- Gaby