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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:50:46 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pthreads
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In-Reply-To: <011c01c0b070$9f8ae6c0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:32:09PM +1100

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:32:09PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Any objections if I do a <sarcastic>little bit</sarcastic> of
>housekeeping in pthread.h thread.cc & thread.h ? There's a few serious
>issues there with the type definitions (which I blindly followed for
>pthread_cond* - making it worse :[).

No objections to cleanup at all.  I've never really liked this code.

>I believe I can make it leaner and meaner, and more compatible/easy to
>build on in future....
>
>Fortunately I believe this can be done without breaking existing
>compiled programs (I'll especially test for this).
>
>As a side effect it will make some of it 64 bit clean.
>
>Rob
>
>* and rewrite the guts of thread.cc & thread.h to allocate new objects
>on the stack and store the pointer rather than an index. This also
>removes the overhead of walking the list for user space requests, and
>simplifies the code.

How can you allocate things on the stack?  That doesn't seem possible.
Do you mean the heap?

cgf