Re: [pthreads] performance test using fib.scm

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Maciej Stachowiak <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10Dec2002 10:10PM (+0100), Wolfgang Jaehrling wrote:
>> malloc() in glibc is thread-save, but not reentrant.  Since the
>> behaviour of realloc() is unlikely to differ from malloc() in this
>> respect, you most certainly have to protect calls to it with a lock.
>> 
>
> Huh? Doesn't malloc do it's own locking when modifying global data
> structures?

This is what I would have expected.

Can someone please verify that malloc is reentrant?

Best regards,
Mikael D.