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Re: [RFC][BZ #16549] Add sanity check for condvar alignment.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:03:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [RFC][BZ #16549] Add sanity check for condvar alignment.
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The general policy of glibc has always been that if a program is invoking
undefined behavior, then fail-fast is the preferred behavior. We don't
sacrifice significant performance to achieve fail-fast, but when it's easy
it's always what we deem the "right" thing to do.