__getreent in libgloss

[Stefan Wallentowitz]

On 05.11.2014 15:05, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> If your bare metal target doesn't have threads, this reentrancy isn't an issue. If it does, then I would tend to think that the target should not be or1k-elf but something indicating the thread package. It would also have lock support.
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> I think all the bare *-elf targets are single threaded focused although some RTOSes use them anyway.
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Hi,

there are two things:

First, I added the reentrancy to support the use of C library routines 
in exceptions and therefore implement two impure structs, just to not 
mess up printf buffers during exceptions etc.. Solely for this we don't 
need dynamic reentrancy, but can just exchange the _impure_ptr. The goal 
of the whole implementation of exception and interrupt hooks is that 
people can use the or1k-elf toolchain to build everything including a 
small scheduler or virtual memory threads, if they need. It is of course 
debatable that this is necessary.

Second, we have multiple cores running the same baremetal code from 
shared memory. I think this is the point where we need dynamic 
reentrancy, as we have multiple threads of execution (not meaning "OS 
threads") that share the code. I am not sure if this already qualifies 
for another target than *-elf.

Thanks.

Bye,

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