Ticket #2974 Enable search.h functionality in newlib

[Gedare Bloom]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 8:46 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 1:58 AM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhav.varodek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > My very quick review shows that this may all be present and then it is a matter
>>> > of test cases and the compliance document. And that's a good result. Sometimes
>>> > people do work and don't update tickets.
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>>> My hazy recollection is that someone looked into this. Maybe in prior
>>> POSIX Compliance projects?
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>> Last year when I was porting ndbm.h I made several queries regarding this directory.
>> Even after doing all the changes correctly, the port was not successful. Later I found
>> out that the ndbm was calling a hash function from search.h.
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>> The headers in this directory need to be updated first. Me and Joel even had
>> discussion about this in newlib mailing list but got no positive response from them.
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>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2019/017046.html
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>> https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2019-June/026205.html
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> The newlib link doesn't work after the sourceware upgrade :(
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> Let's assume this code needs to be updated to the latest freebsd and then freebsd ndbm brought over.

Vaibhav, can you help Eshan to understand what you discovered last
year, and work on a plan for this summer to address this challenge?

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>> --Vaibhav Gupta