Non reentrant floating point functions?

[Eric Blake]

On 03/13/2015 03:29 AM, Rasmus Bo Sørensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just started using the floating point functions of newlib on an
> embedded multicore processor that we are developing at the Technical University of Denmark.
> I am puzzled about the "#ifndef _REENT_ONLY"  in line 125 of 'newlib/libc/include/math.h'.
> Are the functions in lines 127 - 138 not meant to be reentrant?
> And in this case what is it that makes them non-reentrant?

Any math function which is required to set errno on failure is not
necessarily reentrant (or rather, _REENT_ONLY is designed to protect
setups where errno is global rather than thread-local).

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