[PATCH] Use __BSD_VISIBLE for RTEMS <sys/_termios.h>
Craig Howland
howland@LGSInnovations.com
Wed May 24 14:51:00 GMT 2017
On 05/24/2017 05:29 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 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.
>
Yaakov agreed with BSD as the gate, and I also independently found a source
which says VEOL2, VWERASE, etc. are BSD extensions; __BSD_VISIBLE is good.
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