Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR port-arm/50087; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 15:18:07 -0400

 On Aug 9,  4:45pm, joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib
 
 |  This is the wrong approach, IMO. libpthread should not use malloc until
 |  it knows that libc is fully initialized, not the other way around.
 
 This is a problem with libc using malloc the wrong time, not libpthread
 (due to constructor order). The problem seems to be triggered by the
 arm arm_initfini.c. I could reproduce this even on x86_64 by adding that
 file to the libc build.
 
 christos