Re: Compiling for Android

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden writes:

> Check ./docs/text/system/libc/OVERVIEW.text from the Android NDK:
[...]
> pthread_once():
[...]
>   The current implementation of pthread_once() lacks the necessary support of
>   multi-core-safe double-checked-locking (read and write barriers).

This is the only bit that worries me.  It sounds like Bionic's
pthread_once() might not work properly on multi-core systems.  We rely
on 'pthread_once' for thread-safe lazy initialization in libguile.

     Mark