Re: How is _GLOBAL_REENT meant to be used?

[Thomas Zenker <thz at tuebingen dot netsurf dot de>]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On 4/22/06, Thomas Zenker <thz@tuebingen.netsurf.de> wrote:
> > Ok, but what if you do not use newlib for threads within a process
> > (f.e. under linux), but as independent tasks in a RTOS, then you want to keep
> > the information about open files separate for each task. I think same applies to
> > atexit lists. ECOS could have the same problem probably.
> 
> In this case, each process should have it's own copy of the .data
> section of newlib. In that case, newlib should be compiled -fPIC, and
> the .data section should be relocated for each process. This task
> isn't actually as difficult as it sounds. You might find the utility
> elf2flt useful to collect the relocations into an easily read format.
>

this sounds as the way to go, thank you.
-- Thomas