Re: malloca, freea are not thread-safe

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Florian,

> -fcheck-pointer-bounds in GCC doesn't really work.  The existing 
> implementation is barely a research prototype (for example, most string 
> functions are not protected by it)

Thanks for the info. I was just setting up a build of gnulib with

CC="gcc -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"
CXX="g++ -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"

Good to know that it would be a waste of time.

Bruno