Re: glib memory allocation problems

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > I don't understand some things however, so here are some questions to glib devs:
> > 1) Why the crash didn't occur when using G_SLICE=always-malloc?
>
> Because only the gslice code used thread private data, the malloc()
> code is thread safe without needing any initialization.

inside glib, there are many more places besides gslice that rely on
the program either being single threaded or calling g_thread_init.

> Miklos

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