[gst-devel] Possible race-condition when using g_enum_register_static

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Samstag, den 20.10.2007, 11:55 +0100 schrieb Tim Müller:
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 12:56 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> 
> > Another problem is, that GOnce is GLib 2.14 stuff and thus can't be used
> > unless we update the requirements to that version which wasn't done in
> > the past already because of backward compatibility reasons.
> 
> The new g_once_init_enter() is GLib-2.14 stuff, but GOnce/g_once() have
> been around since GLib-2.4, so no problem there.

IIRC g_once_init_enter() has the big advantage, that no locking is
involved in the normal case, i.e. the variable is already assigned while
with GOnce there is...
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