[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 608398] Initializing the glib thread system seems not to work

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608398
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--- Comment #7 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2010-01-29 11:00:38 UTC ---
> > So there's no need to call g_thread_init() very early in the program any more?
> > Before other GLib functions are called, etc.? As I see it, the assumption is
> > sort of that g_type_init() is called first thing in main() now, more or less,
> > and -DG_THREADS_MANDATORY only seems to be used in GObject, but not in GLib
> > itself.
> 
> Yes, either call it always (it can be called multiple times) or assume
> g_type_init() calls it

The reason we added the warning was that calling g_thread_init() too late
caused mysterious issues with GSlice, and at the time the GLib people argued
that that was fine because g_thread_init() was supposed to be called *first
thing* in main() and behaviour was undefined if that was not the case, so it's
not their problem.

Has that been officially changed now to 'just call g_thread_init() before you
use any threading primitives?'

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