On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:
> I am interested in Philip's opinion, but in general I think PCRE
> should always be fully thread safe.
I believe that PCRE is indeed fully thread safe. The ChangeLog says:
Version 0.94 18-Sep-97
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1. The functions are now thread-safe, with the caveat that the global variables
containing pointers to malloc() and free() or alternative functions are the
same for all threads.
... and as far as I know, nothing later has changed this. With the
benefit of hindsight, I now believe that I was stupid and wrong not to
get rid of the static pcre_malloc and pcre_free variables at the same
time as all the other, previous-existing, static variables. One day, an
entirely new API will have to be invented, I suppose, but I am not keen.
Philip
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Philip Hazel
