[PATCH] make <sys/sysmacros.h> compatible with glibc
Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Mon Apr 4 06:40:00 GMT 2011
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 01:19 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> There is a __INSIDE_CYGWIN_NET__ which I apparently added ten years ago
> but my ideas about naming have changed. I also added
> USE_SYS_TYPES_FD_SET which is closer to what I now prefer but it should
> have had some leading underscores.
I could just manually define __NO_INLINE__; there's no net effect on the
resulting object file.
I suppose YA alternative would be to define these as cygwin_dev_* and
then export them in cygwin.din as gnu_dev_*, but that does seem to be an
overkill.
> Maybe the functions were added to gcc before it had the ability to force
> inlining.
Not AFAICS; originally they were simple macros like we currently have,
but for glibc-2.3.3 (Sept 2003), they were changed, adding both inline
and exported functions simultaneously[1].
Of course, this is not unprecedented: note ntohl and friends, for which
we also provide both inline and exported.
But as I've mentioned before, that where a function is expected,
providing a macro or inline function by itself is inadequate; an
autoconf AC_CHECK_FUNC or cmake CheckFunctionExists call will result in
a false negative if a real function is not present as well. (Although I
do concede that is seems unlikely in this particular case.)
Yaakov
[1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a276f8
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