Regression test for thread safety?

[Phil Edwards]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:51:39PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I did some experiments to measure how effective these tests are
> at detecting thread safety problems.  First, I tested whether
> compiling with -D_NOTHREADS disabled locking.  As expected,
>   g++-3.0 -E t.C | grep -i __lock_instance
> showed hits,  but adding -D_NOTHREADS showed no hits.

Something you should know if you haven't discovered it since your email:
turning thread support on and off is only supported by the command-line flags
like "-pthread" or "-mthreads" or whatever is appropriate for your platform.
Preprocessor symbol hacks like _NOTHREADS were never documented and aren't
really supported.


Phil

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