pthread_cleanup_push as a macro

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Fri May 30 23:05:50 UTC 2008


On Fri, 30 May 2008, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Friday 30 May 2008 02:42:08 am David Xu wrote:
>> I would like to make pthread_cleanup_push and pthread_cleanup_pop as a
>> pair of macros, the current implementation has to malloc() and free() a
>> pthread_cleanup memory block everytime, this is slow, the new one
>> simply uses stack space, note that other OSes have already done it in
>> this way. The patch keeps old functions and should not have binary
>> compatible problem.
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/patch/pthread_cleanup_push.patch
>
> Please do!

I agree - Solaris does this too.  I am unsure why you really need
a strong_reference - I would prefer something that doesn't require
it.

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DE


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