[PATCH] confdefs: Add declaration for unlimited objects.

[Gedare Bloom]

If any intrepid potential GSOC students want to take a crack at
writing a patch this could be a good opportunity! :)

/me doesn't want to write doc right now ;)

-Gedare

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2012 04:31 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>
>> Messed up :) This description should have preceded the patch. Oh well.
>>
>> I wrote this because of a request in IRC (By Peer) asking whether a
>> similar mechanism existed.
>
> I think this is a handy option. If you will add some documentation
> to doc/user/conf.t, then it is OK to apply.
>>
>> -Gedare
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Gedare Bloom<gedare at rtems.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch adds a macro to ease writing a configuration when the user
>>> does not care about resource limits / determinism. Such a case arises
>>> frequently when porting software to RTEMS when the precise resource
>>> requirements of the software is unknown. By allowing users to declare
>>> all resources as being unlimited the user will be able to easily avoid
>>> having to identify which resources are included and define the resource
>>> limits.
>>>
>>> I tested this patch only with the unlimited sample, which uses unlimited
>>> tasks. The other classic resources and posix resources have not been
>>> tested
>>> to verify that they will work properly when using unlimited objects. Due
>>> to how the posix objects' memory requirements are configured in confdefs
>>> this patch does not provide unlimited declarations for posix keys or
>>> queued signals.
>>>
>>> If a user provides a value for a configured number of resources that
>>> value will be used instead of the unlimited. If a user does not specify
>>> an allocation size the default size of 8 objects is used. This macro does
>>> not
>>> support varying the allocation sizes for different objects; users who
>>> want that
>>> much control can define the unlimited macros themselves.
>>
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