KStringHandler: stateless/reentrant/thread-safe?

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2012 21.06.35, Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> Yes, I thought the same, but then I wasn't entirely sure if all these
> functions really are thread-safe. Some of them have const static variables,
> which might be initialised the first time the function is called AFAIK. I
> don't know if that's guaranteed to work if the functions can be called from
> multiple threads. But you can probably answer that question

Caching some global information which could be recreated on every call is 
stateless and thread-safe.

If the static variable cannot be recreated on every call, it's stateful. That 
contradicts the documentation.

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