Gsoc 2014 project proposal

[Andrea Francesco Iuorio]

As i think. Thank you, you advices are really helpful.

2014-02-27 0:03 GMT+01:00 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Andrea Francesco Iuorio wrote:
>
>> I think i understand now. The important thing is that i must create
>> the union/struct directly in the typedef and avoid renaming. If
>> possible i should try to mantain the pthread types structure so i can
>> cast between them. I don' t understand one thing in the first
>> solution: why do you separate the architecture-dependent data ? Just
>> to have the same machine-dependent code in only one place ?
>
> In general, when you have lots of architecture-specific versions of a
> header there's a risk that some patch won't update them all consistently.
> Thus, if something is consistent between all architectures, it's best that
> it's in an architecture-independent header - that the
> architecture-dependent headers only contain the minimum that really does
> vary between architectures.
>
> See, for example, how we have bits/fcntl-linux.h with definitions shared
> between Linux architectures, with bits/fcntl.h only containing the minimum
> that depends on the architecture.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com



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Andrea Francesco Iuorio
Student in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano
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