Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 01:14:06 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 01:00:31, James Robertson wrote: >I am writing a C++ program for one of my classes and the professor informed us >that we must use malloc/free instead of new/delete as new/delete are not thread >safe. The program is using POSIX threads. Can anyone confirm or deny that new >and delete are in fact no-nos in multithreading? > >James I did some web-searching about this, since it also interests me. (heck, we can throw away our application at work if it isn't thread-safe ;) I didn't find an official word so far, but it seems that all "modern" libaries have a thread-safe implementation of new and delete. I'm still looking for an "official statement" though. Sargon
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