Re: Reentrant functions and memory allocation

[santosh]

fmassei@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Dear all,
> I'm trying to put some old code in a portable, cross-platform library
> and I'm facing a big problem: is there a standard, platform-
> independent way to write a reentrant function that allocate dynamic
> memory? In other words: is it safe to use malloc() or free() in a
> thread-safe function?
> Thank you,
> Francesco

I think most malloc implementations are reentrant. All you need to do is
to ensure that your data objects are also thread safe, which means
using as few static objects as possible.