root@ihack.net (Charles M. Hannum) writes:

> > What about something like this?
> > 
> > _getc():  no multithreaded support
> > _getc_MT():  locking
> > 
> > and in the header file:
> > #if defined(_REENTRANT)
> > 	rename(getc, _getc_MT);
> > #else
> > 	rename(getc, _getc);
> > #endif
> 
> That doesn't really help, since getc() is a macro.

Ok, I chose the wrong function to give an example against, but if you
replace getc with, say, printf, would this idea work?

--Michael