Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Another problem with the proposed patch is that there is no > declaration for attr_start() before the call in compat/mingw.c. We > would have to move the declaration of attr_start() to cache.h (for > example), because #including attr.h in compat/mingw.c is plainly > wrong. However, it would not be a major offense to #include attr.h in > common-main.c. But when we do that, we can certainly spare the few > cycles to call pthread_mutex_init. That sounds like a good argument to have it in common-main.c. Would it mean that the code that defines the mutex needs to have #ifdef that defines a no-op attr_start() and defines the mutex with PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITILIZER with #else that just defines the mutex without initializatin, with the real attr_start(), though?