Re: New articles on ewontfix

["Daniel Cegiełka" <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com>]

2013/7/7 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> * Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2013-07-05 11:54:11 -0400]:
>> > I'm still trying to determine how to work out a formal definition of
>> > library-safe. My thought is that it would be based on the property of
>> > being able to combine two programs with well-defined behavior, both
>> > using the library code, into a single program where each original
>> > program runs starting with its own initial thread, such that the
>> > combined program does not invoke UB and the two sub-programs match
>> > their behavior before being combined. However there are lots of ugly
>> > issues that have to be considered.
>> >
>> > With that done, the interesting part would be covering common failures
>> > of libraries to be library-safe.
>>
>> i'm not sure if you can derive all the interesting failures from a
>> single definition
>>
>> this definition covers multi-thread issues

Lukasz Sowa (blowfish diff for musl) has prepared a very good tool for
debugging multi-threaded applications.

https://github.com/luksow/Coconut

I hope that it will be useful in testing...

Daniel