On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:47:51 +0200
Hendrik Leppkes <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> Le 2015-10-08 17:21, Hendrik Leppkes a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> pthread is a bit of a exception. All its functions can return errors,
> >>> but the only time they would is if you pass in an invalid argument.
> >>
> >>
> >>> No-one checks return values of pthread_mutex_lock, for example.
> >>
> >>
> >> That is not true. Plenty of projects check for errors there for debugging.
> >
> > Indeed, see for instance
> > http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL/src/thread/pthread/SDL_sysmutex.c (SDL
> > mutexes) used by avplay. SDL mutex creation and destruction forwards
> > the error to avplay, where it is (currently) not being checked.
> >
> 
> The real point of course is that pthread_once just cannot fail. The
> spec doesn't define any error codes, and the win32 implementation
> doesn't ever fail, the glibc impl never does, the musl impl never
> does, and at that point I gave up trying to figure out which
> implementations I should look for.
> If you want to litter the codebase with dead code, well, just go ahead.

Amen. (+1)
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