[PATCH] Clean pthread types namespaces on x86 and x86_64
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Jun 23 22:16:00 GMT 2015
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Juan Manuel Torres Palma wrote:
> > Mechanical patches such as this one are expected to update all
> > architectures to keep the sources bisectable. That includes creating
> > dummy versions of the new headers in the toplevel bits/, like the existing
> > bits/pthreadtypes.h, as well as versions of bits/pthread_st.h (which I
> > think should be bits/thread-shared-types.h) for each architecture that
> > currently has its own bits/pthreadtypes.h,
>
> I planned to update every architecture with a different patch better
> than a single huge one, so it could be tracked down if any issue
> happens since I can only test for x86_64 and ARM. Or do you mean
> creating bits/thread-shared-types.h so other architectures can still
> build? I didn't realize of this last possibility until now...
It's best to keep all architectures in sync at every commit boundary as
far as possible, which means a single patch should make the same change
for all architectures.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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