RTEMS patch sweep: *types.h
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Tue Feb 22 11:22:00 GMT 2005
On Feb 22 05:50, Paul Schlie wrote:
> (don't know where it would belong, but do honestly believe, particularly
> for small targets with sparse data memory resources, there needs to be
> some way easy way for the programmer to determine that data structures
> need to ideally be declared as frugally as possible, while not needlessly
> compromising more ideal sizing for larger targets; something basically
> along the lines of where a target may designate themselves as having
> either a small <16KB, medium ~128KB, or large >1MB total data memory;
> thereby a target size aware function implementation may then at least
> attempt to size their allocations proportionally to available resources;
> but again it just provides the opportunity to do so, utilizing the
> information effectively is the harder part.)
That's the whole purpose of defining abstract datatypes like off_t,
size_t, uid_t, pid_t, isn't it?
Corinna
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