Subject: Re: general protection faults with "git grep" version 1.7.7.1

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:07:53 +0200

Thomas Rast wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Thomas Rast wrote:
> > > [GCC moves access to a file-static variable across pthread_mutex_lock()]
> > 
> > Thanks for the investigation.
> > Actually, isn't gcc -O2's code-motion justified?
> > While we *know* that those globals may be modified asynchronously,
> > builtin/grep.c forgot to tell gcc about that.
> 
> I'm somewhat unwilling to believe that:
> 
> * "volatile" enforces three unrelated things, see e.g. [1].

Argh, forgot my reference:
[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2016.html
    section "Existing portable uses"

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Thomas Rast
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