gcc 2.95.4 MT related crashes in basic_string class

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

>
> >  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).
>
> Dudes,
>
> If I had a dime for every time this question was asked, even though it's
> on the FAQ, or for every time some person tried to get 2.90.8 up on
> gcc-2.x and failed, or for every time some huge MT app in some
> impossible-to-reproduce, crazy hardware situation telecom/financial
> testing lab failed due to v2 MT string issues but passed with v3......
>
> ... there would be free empanadas and bordeaux for everybody.
>
> ;)

Indeed, sorry! So I'll start complain more about gcc3.x c++ compilation
speed problems on this list... :-) And perhaps I'll provide some time
statistic for our typical code...

Thanks,

Karel
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