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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, philipoakley@iee.email,
	eschwartz@archlinux.org, Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] async_die_is_recursing: fix use of pthread_getspecific for Fedora
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 01:56:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYN1+tonXZgL9dDa@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPUEspjnu8ySiM5damzCoPWhLv+azZFxsZun5Lztjwd-fDopaw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 08:20:56PM -0700, Carlo Arenas wrote:

> Agree it is OK as a minimal fix, but also AFAIK nothing is really
> stuck either, so something as simple as :
> 
>   s/&ret/&async_die_counter/g
> 
> Would make it as minimal, and less likely to trigger something else in
> the future (I am surprised nothing warns about local variables being
> used out of scope).

It's in scope when we call the function. The potential for bugs only
happens because we know pthread_setspecific() is going to hold on to
it. So the compiler complaining would imply that it knows the semantics
of the pthread function.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-04  1:47 [PATCH] async_die_is_recursing: fix use of pthread_getspecific for Fedora Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2021-11-04  2:23 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-04  2:37   ` Jeff King
2021-11-04  3:20     ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-04  5:56       ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-11-04  4:01 ` [PATCH v2] async_die_is_recursing: work around GCC v11.x issue on Fedora Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2021-11-04  5:58   ` Jeff King
2021-11-04  6:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-04  9:42     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-04 13:08       ` Derrick Stolee
2021-11-04 17:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-05 21:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-04  8:43   ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-04  9:46     ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-04 16:33       ` Johannes Schindelin

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