[RFA] enable dynamic (thread safe) reents

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 13:08:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:20:47AM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>>Unfortunately stdin, stdout and stderr were defined with _REENT 
>>>directly. Sigh.
>>
>>
>>I've checked in this patch.  I'll ask again if it makes sense
>>to fix this problem in newlib.  Does it?
>>
>
>It is a little late for cygwin, but i would suggest to change stdin, out 
>and err to
>
>#define stdin (*__stdin())
>extern  __FILE **__stdin _PARAMS ((void));
>
>and implement as
>
>__FILE **
>__stdin ()
>{
>  return &_REENT->_stdin;
>}
>
>Same for stdout and err. This would allow to define and undefine 
>__DYNAMIC_REENT__ without recompiling all user apps. And _getreent must 
>not be exported.
>I think that this is cleaner.

Why not propose this in the newlib mailing list?

cgf



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