Better FreeBSD compatibility

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  7 09:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  6 12:04, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > in RTEMS we use the FreeBSD network stack and other components. I would like
> > to make some Newlib headers (e.g. <sys/tyeps.h>, <sys/param.h> and
> > <sys/time.h>) more compatible to FreeBSD so that we can use them directly.
> > This involves changes like this:
> > 
> > Change internal type from x to y, e.g. _off_t to __off_t.
> > 
> > Change type define guard from x to y. e.g. __clockid_t_defined to
> > _CLOCKID_T_DECLARED.
> 
> As long as you test that your changes don't break Cygwin it should
> be ok.
> 
> However, how sure can we be that Cygwin is the *only* target using
> internal types outside the newlib tree?

s/Cygwin is the *only* target/Cygwin and RTEMS are the *only* targets/

What about something like

  #define __off_t _off_t

or

  typedef _off_t __off_t;

thus adding the missing type instead of changing it?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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