GSOC:disable newlibc reentrancy

[ralf.corsepius at rtems.org (Ralf Corsepius)]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:54 +0800, ?? wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to disable newlibc.c reentrant support.
Why do you want to do this?

>  And Our goal is to
> defer as many things as possible to link time. To that end, newlibc.c
> should be splitted. bsp_libc_init(in bsppost.c) calls libc_init, which
> is defined in newlibc.c(in libcsupport directory). There are also some
> libc reentrant hooks defined in newlibc.c plus the libc_global_reent
> variable. So I create a new file newlibc_init.c in
> cpukit/libcsupport/src(of course need to modify the Makefile), which
> has only one function(libc_init, copied from newlibc.c), and a
> variable definition(libc_global_reent copied from newlibc.c), and I
> also move the definition of RTEMS_NEWLIB_EXTENSION  to confdefs.h,
> wrapped by CONFIGURE_DISABLE_NEWLIB_REENTRANCY macro. If you do not
> want newlibc reentrancy support, you define macro
> CONFIGURE_DISABLE_NWELIB_REENTRANCY in your application configuration
> file as before, and libc reentrant hooks will no be linked; If you
> need newlibc reentrancy code, you do nothing.  Is that OK?

Not to me ... you don't really want to know my opinion on this proposal.

Ralf