On May 14, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Michael wrote:
> it seems like thread_start is not calling mysql_init implicitely, so
> calls to mysqlpp::tgread_start result in a segfault (mysql++ 3.08 on
> FreeBSD7.2).
> Adding
> mysqlpp::Connection() to the beginning of main works as a temporary
> fix,
> but I think thread_start should somehow verify that
> mysql_(library)_init
> is called at least once.
Such details are best left to the underlying C library. The right
fix, already scheduled for v3.1, is to expose mysql_library_init() and
mysql_library_end() through DBDriver. This will also squish the last
spurious memory leak report from tools like valgrind when using threads.
