[PATCH] Use __BSD_VISIBLE for RTEMS <sys/_termios.h>

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
Wed May 24 09:29:00 GMT 2017


On 24/05/17 07:42, Sebastian Huber wrote:

>
>
> On 23/05/17 17:16, Craig Howland wrote:
>> On 05/23/2017 04:23 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> The Termios header <sys/_termios.h> used _POSIX_SOURCE directly to
>>> determine if a thing should be exposed to the user.  This circumvented
>>> the feature mechanisms of <sys/cdefs.h>.
>> Would you please explain why !_POSIX_SOURCE being replaced with 
>> __BSD_VISIBLE rather than, for example, !__POSIX_VISIBLE?
>
> A negation of visibility define makes no sense.
>
>> That is, you seem to not only be updating to sys/features.h macro 
>> names, but also shifting exactly how the gate is done.  (I'm not 
>> saying it is necessarily incorrect, just that the explanation does 
>> not mention the logic change.  The two are not logical opposites, so 
>> an implication is that the original gate of POSIX is not really the 
>> right one.) 
>
> This is an import from FreeBSD. To me this looks like FreeBSD forgot 
> to update the Termios headers to use the visibility defines.
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2017-May/051069.html
>

I changed this in FreeBSD:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=318780

I will send a v2 of the patch set for Newlib.

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