On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, 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.

I am sorry, but I am not convinced by your claim. Unless this code has
changed recently, see e.g
https://github.com/VFR-maniac/pthreads-win32/blob/master/pthread_once.c

there is a nonzero return value.
Here EINVAL can be returned.

I want to lay out all this stuff here; feel free to do whatever you want.

>
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