> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >__dtoa has static locals.  Bad function, no biscuit.
> 
> I think this can be a serious problem for any threaded application,
> I have not tested your patch yet, you think this is only a temporary
> solution right? Have you commited this patch to current? Is somebody
> else working on that?

There are still serious problems; Tor pointed out that the Bigint 
freelist probably needs protection too.

Personally, I think the entire interface is totally bogus, and the 
allocator should just call malloc.  I don't have any benchmarks to test 
printf speed though...

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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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