[PLUG] Malloc and Glibc

Karl M. Hegbloom karlheg at pdxlinux.org
Wed Nov 27 05:37:31 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:34, Kyle Hayes wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 13:16, Mathew, Tisson K wrote:
> > I'm running glibc 2.2.2 on ARM/XScale with pthreads
> 
> Try the -D_REENTRANT trick others have mentioned.  It is possible that the 
> ARM version does not support pthreads as well I suppose.  Not likely, but 
> possible.

-D_REENTRANT can only have some effect if one of the included headers
ifdef's on it.  The Debian Policy Manual mandates that all development
libraries must be built with -D_REENTRANT.

> Can I play with and ARM too? :-)  I've thought the ARM architecture was 
> amazingly nice when I got the first brochures in 1987...  Sigh.  I've 
> never even been able to use a computer with an ARM.

You could if you are an official Debian maintainer:

http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/






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