> So you ask for pthread_mutex and now it's ten times bigger and you're regretting your life choices. It's 36 bytes bigger. Unless you're for some reason doin

> So you ask for pthread_mutex and now it's ten times bigger and you're regretting your life choices. It's 36 bytes bigger. Unless you're for some reason doing embedded development with a resource constrained system running a UNIX-like OS, that is not a concern that registers anywhere. And you get standard code that runs anywhere. Arguing about 36 bytes per critical section makes no sense. You waste far more than that by handling a string.