On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 07:22 -0500, Bob Caryl wrote: > I had originally intended to write my help display routine as part of a > dynamic library intended for use by my applications. If I use a global > function in this setting it would be entirely possible that multiple > applications and/or threads in the same application could try to call > such a global function simultaneously (or nearly simultaneously), > thereby giving indeterminate results. Why would a global function be less thread safe than a member function? As long as you're not using any global or static function variables (which you also could do in a member function) I don't see how there is a difference. (sorry if this mail is sent twice to the list, I think I used the wrong sender address last time) -- Lars Luthman PGP key: http://www.d.kth.se/~d00-llu/pgp_key.php Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E
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