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From:
Tony Cook
Date:
September 7, 2017 00:20
Subject:
Re: RFC: PERL_REENTR
Message ID:
20170907001958.GN9255@mars.tony.develop-help.com
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 04:02:43PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote:
> Perl has a facility for automatically and invisibly substituting reentrant
> library functions when the non-reentrant one is called.
...
> 
> Nor is it done on Darwin, but I don't know why.

As discussed in #p5p, this seems to come from:

commit 4f8ddd771cda27533f4680b572d765b063e03e11
Author: Artur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 10:30:58 2002 +0000

    Enable building with threads under macosx, assume __APPLE__ means darwin and disable _r functions, since we don't have them.
    
    p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14557


which seems to be badly out of date.

Tony

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