[PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Sat Oct 10 05:59:00 GMT 2009


On 13/09/09 10:51 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>      Hi all,
>
>    Granted that the whole _TIMEVAL_DEFINED/__USE_W32_SOCKETS thing is basically
> an ugly and undesirable hack, but until we have a plan to fix the whole
> tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight combo (as well as gnat), I figure we have to
> live with it, and so it should at least be correct consistent and complete.
>
>    There is still one place that struct timeval is defined but _TIMEVAL_DEFINED
> is not, causing order-of-include problems.  The attached patch is the most
> minimal adjustment that could be made to the whole thing to make it
> at-least-not-any-worse-than-it-already-is, and solves problems compiling GNAT
> from upstream sources.
>
> newlib/ChangeLog:
>
> 	* libc/include/sys/time.h (_TIMEVAL_DEFINED): Define when
> 	defining struct timeval.
>
>    Sanity-checked by building winsup on i686-pc-cygwin, but I think it's fairly
> clear by inspection that this could only ever prevent a redefinition error,
> and it's exactly how the MinGW headers solve the same problem.  Is this OK?
>
>      cheers,
>        DaveK

Patch checked in.

-- Jeff J.



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