On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Darin Adler wrote:


These calls are thread-safe on both Mac OS X and Windows -- both those platforms use per-thread globals for these calls.

On Mac OS X, we also have the _r variants, but they are no more or less thread-safe (although it's more elegant to not use the globals). If there's an important platform that has the _r variants but a non-thread-safe localtime and gmtime we can add conditionally compiled code since Windows does not have the _r variants.

These aren't threadsafe on Linux (Maks checked the glibc source code). And the _r variants are easy to implement in terms of the windows _s variants (or even in terms of the vanilla variants, given that they are threadsafe) on Windows. Looking at the OS X implementation the _r versions also look more efficient, though probably not enough to matter in the real world.

Regards,
Maciej

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