Graeme Prentice wrote:

> Yeah, localtime, along with a few other C features, can't be
> called from multiple threads.  (How do you find out the
> thread-safety of "C" library functions with GCC?)

Which brings up another issue: I understand that there is some
discussion in the committee concerning adding threading to C++.
In this case, what do we do about such functions?  Do we define
a multi-thread safe version, a la Posix?  (If we also add
garbage collection, then there is no problem; just require them
to be multi-threaded.  Except that then, we loose C -- and Posix
-- compatibility.  Oh well...)

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