Back in r240527 I added a knob to prevent thread-unsafe functions from
being exposed. mblen(), mbtowc() and wctomb() were also added to this
list, as the latest issue of POSIX doesn't require these functions to be
thread-safe.
It turns out that the only circumstance in which these functions are not
thread-safe is in case they are used in combination with state-dependent
character sets (e.g., Shift-JIS). According to Austin Group Bug 708,
these character sets "[...] are mostly a relic of the past and which
were never supported on most POSIX systems".
Though in many cases the use of these functions can be prevented by
using the reentrant counterparts, they are the only functions that allow
you to query whether the locale's character set is state-dependent. This
means that omitting these functions removes actual functionality.
Let's be a bit less pedantic and drop the guards around these functions.
Links:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=708http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2037.htm
Reviewed by: ericwf
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D21436
llvm-svn: 290748
One of the aspects of CloudABI is that it aims to help you write code
that is thread-safe out of the box. This is very important if you want
to write libraries that are easy to reuse. For CloudABI we decided to
not provide the thread-unsafe functions. So far this is working out
pretty well, as thread-unsafety issues are detected really early on.
The following patch adds a knob to libc++,
_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_THREAD_UNSAFE_C_FUNCTIONS, that can be set to disable
thread-unsafe functions that can easily be avoided in practice. The
following functions are not thread-safe:
- <clocale>: locale handles should be preferred over setlocale().
- <cstdlib>: mbrlen(), mbrtowc() and wcrtomb() should be preferred over
their non-restartable counterparts.
- <ctime>: asctime(), ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() are not
thread-safe. The first two are also deprecated by POSIX.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8703
Reviewed by: marshall
llvm-svn: 240527
