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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:41:51 -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 04:45:58AM +0200, Luka Marčetić wrote:
> Hey.
> As I've explained in the recent e-mail to Alexander, I couldn't get
> alloc.c  to work with musl, so I switched to pthread_eintr, but ran
> into a problem there too.

So we're on the same page, is the latest version in git what you're
looking at? I'll take a look..

> Rich, help me out please with the question from IRC: What's up with
> the line from pthread_eintr.c looking like this:
>     pthread_cleanup_push(child_wait_vp, NULL);
> Both musl and glibc macros generate invalid code for this one, it
> ends with `do {;` in both cases iirc. Strange - what is it?
> Thank you,
> Luka

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

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