Re: [PATCH v3] Merge parts of <sys/time.h> from FreeBSD

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Mar 20 11:34, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 19/03/15 09:12, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> >On 19/03/15 09:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Mar 18 15:57, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> >>>On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 11:00 +0100, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> >>>>Merge parts of the latest <sys/time.h> from FreeBSD to Newlib.  This
> >>>>has
> >>>>two reasons.
> >>>>
> >>>>1. We want to use the FreeBSD timecounters for timekeeping in RTEMS.
> >>>>See also https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2271.
> >>>>
> >>>>2. This makes the port of the network stack from FreeBSD easier.
> >>>Is anyone else having problems building newlib with this time.h change?
> >>>My MIPS build is dying with:
> >>>
> >>>In file included
> >>>from
> >>>/scratch/sellcey/repos/newlib/src/newlib/newlib/libc/time/time.c:38:0:
> >>>/scratch/sellcey/repos/newlib/src/newlib/newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h:60:2:
> >>>error: unknown type name 'uint64_t'
> >>>   uint64_t frac;
> >>>   ^
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I will investigate some more but I wanted to see if anyone else was
> >>>getting this error.  I probably would have seen it sooner but I just
> >>>moved to using the new git repository.
> >
> >I try currently to figure out, why this is not a problem on FreeBSD.
> 
> On FreeBSD the <sys/types.h> defines the following types:
> 
> int8_t
> int16_t
> int32_t
> int64_t
> uint8_t
> uint16_t
> uint32_t
> uint64_t
> intptr_t
> uintptr_t
> 
> These types are defined in <sys/_stdint.h> on FreeBSD.
> 
> On glibc only the following types are available via <sys/types.h>:
> 
> int8_t
> int16_t
> int32_t
> int64_t
> 
> I would like to use the FreeBSD approach also for Newlib. Any objections?

I'm not opposed to do it that way, but it may require chnages in Cygwin
headers, so, let's be careful.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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