about header files used in score

[Zhongjie]

Hi,
I noticed that in the file newlib/configure.host in newlib 1.17 we defined
EXIT_PROVIDED, but it looks like
newlib does not use it at all, maybe we could remove it?

Regards
Zhongjie

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>wrote:

> Zhu Zhongjie wrote:
> > I am sorry, open() and lseek() are not suitable examples, maybe
> > execle() opendir() are more suitable.
> >
> If you look closely at opendir() you will see that it is disabled
> if it is in newlib now.
>
> #ifndef HAVE_OPENDIR
>
> There was a period of time where some C library methods were
> copied into RTEMS because newlib didn't have fine enough
> granularity on configuring the things we could support.
>
> The exec*() methods are in RTEMS because we don't support
> them and these are just stubs.  But now we do pull a lot of them
> from newlib and provide the one or two require "system calls".
>
> There was a recent push to ensure we used every possible routine
> in newlib even if it meant having a high level routine end up
> doing work and failing because we didn't support the required
> underlying system call.
>
> There is a fuzzy line between C library and system calls.  We
> consider pthread_xxx part of the OS while in GNU/Linux these
> are in the C library.  There is no requirement on where things
> reside -- just that the .h files and C methods are proper.
>
> --joel
> > Regards.
> > Zhongjie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From*: Zhongjie <zhurabbit at gmail.com
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> > *To*: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com
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> > *Subject*: Re: about header files used in score
> > *Date*: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:50 +0800
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have done much more study about rtems, I am still confused about the c
> library.
> > It looks like libcsupport has implemented some functions like open()
> lseek() that
> > usually in c library.
> > If I use those functions, which function will be linked into
> > the final executable program?
> >
> > Regards.
> > Zhongjie
> >
> >
>
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