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Message-ID: <20110812153934.GI132@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:39:34 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cluts daily reports 8/12 - continuing pthread_eintr,
 still stuck with alloc

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 05:40:26PM +0200, Luka Marčetić wrote:
> >>Both musl and glibc macros generate invalid code for this one, it
> >>ends with `do {;` in both cases iirc. Strange - what is it?
> >You might want to read this:
> >http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_cleanup_pop.html
> >
> >There's even a sample implementation in the rationale.
> >
> >Rich
> 
> What I read was:
> 
> "The thread exits (that is, calls/pthread_exit/() <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_exit.html>)."
> 
> Then I clicked the link(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_exit.html <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_exit.html>),
> hoping to find this:
> 
> "An implicit call to/pthread_exit/() is made when a thread other
> than the thread in which/main/() was first invoked returns from the
> start routine that was used to create it."
> 
> And when I did, I've overlooked '{', expecting an '}'. I regard this
> as slight inconsistency in the standard. At least it's missing the
> word "explicitly", but I'd reword it altogether hehe.
> Anyway, I'll just cast the void* to a function pointer and call it directly.

I don't follow what you're saying in this email...

Rich

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