On 01/04/2011 02:12 PM, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
I¹m more of a system administrator supporting software engineers than a software engineer myself, so if my questions seem out of context, please excuse, and hopefully help! I just read on stackoverflow that if we compile with -pthreads, malloc is thread safe on x86 and x86_64 hardware. Is this true??? If so, what version of gcc/g++ is that implemented in?
None: it's a C library thing. As far as I'm aware malloc has been thread- safe in glibc since forever. Andrew.
