I am having some trouble with, what I believe is a race condition in the std::string library in multi thread applications on multi-cpu x86 boxs. The version in question is: gcc: 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98) >From my research I have concluded that there exists known bugs/issues with this version (please correct me if I'm wrong). What I would like to know is, is there a workaround for this problem? Upgrading is not really an option since we have a large code base which has dependency on 3rd party libraries and would require a large porting effort.. I would be happy to replace the std::string implementation if that is an option.. A simple replacement would suffice, COW semantics are not required, stability is more important than performance (in this instance :) Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.. Regards, Karl
