[Development] Disabling thread safe static guards

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 29 June 2015 19:44:49 Sergio Martins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Can we disable gcc's feature of emitting extra code to make local static
> initialization thread safe ? (-fno-threadsafe-statics)

No.

> Since MSVC doesn't support it we can't rely on this feature in
> cross-platform Qt code (maybe only in QPA code).

Correct.

> Generates uneeded code and helps hidding crashes that developers using Linux
> don't notice.

The code is needed because we use it in Q_GLOBAL_STATIC.

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