GSOC:disable newlibc reentrancy

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

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:25 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 15:26 +0800, ?? wrote:
> >   
> >> 2008/5/8, Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org>:
> >>     
> >>> 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?
> >>>       
> >> That is one of the size reduction ideas of tiny rtems project.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, in verbose: What you are doing is absurd. It means to cut-off rtems
> > from newlib, turning all of newlib and the whole compiler unusable.
> >   
> The goal is not to disconnect RTEMS from newlib
It's what you essentially are doing.


>  -- it is
> simply to turn off the newlib reentrancy support on
> systems that do not require,
newlib requires it.

If you disable if on the RTEMS side, use a different compiler.

> RTEMS should be a collection of small pieces that
> can be composed in many ways at application
> configure and link time.   You can compose a big system
> or a small system.  Nothing wrong with that.
The toolchain is the wrong one and this GSOC project is wrong.

Ralf