From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: egcs@cygnus.com, ross.s@ihug.co.nz
Subject: Re: New STL implementation from SGI
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <199807132321.QAA25509@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00464.html

> From: "Ross Smith" <ross.s@ihug.co.nz>
> To: <egcs@cygnus.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:44:24 +1200

> I realise not everyone thinks thread safety is vital, but for me and
> many others, thread safety is a killer issue. I had to switch from
> EGCS to MSVC because of this; I plan to switch back as soon as a
> thread safe libstdc++ is available. I'd just like to put in a plea
> to the library implementors to make sure they understand this issue,
> and not to compromise thread safety in favour of efficiency. (Or at
> least to give us the option.)

If would be useful for us for you to add to the g++int.texi file a
chapter on thread safety, or more importantly, what isn't that you
think should be.  There are some of us that can do the work, if you
sensitize us to the issues.