what's up with _COMPILING_NEWLIB
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Mon Nov 8 18:14:16 GMT 2021
On 08 Nov 2021 16:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 8 06:46, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 08 Nov 2021 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Nov 6 20:21, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > i stumbled across _COMPILING_NEWLIB and it seems to be what i want: a symbol
> > > > that indicates the code currently being compiled is newlib itself so that the
> > > > header can change behavior for that environment specifically. is that what
> > > > it's meant for ?
> > > >
> > > > if so, why does it seem to be inconsistently defined ? newlib/configure.host
> > > > will add it for a few random targets, as does the mips-specific
> > > > newlib/libc/machine/mips/Makefile.am, as do a few specific winsup/cygwin/
> > > > files. it feels like the patch below is what we should have.
> > > >
> > > > if that's not what this is for, is there a define that has this meaning ?
> > > > in the glibc & gnulib world, the plain _LIBC define indicates this.
> > >
> > > _COMPILING_NEWLIB might be older than that. In Cygwin we certainly need
> > > it during build. Your patch looks good to me, did you test it for some
> > > targets?
> >
> > yes, i tested it for bfin-elf and with a change that needed it in ctype.h.
> > the ctype.h change didn't work until i updated the build this way.
>
> uhm... why does a change in a header file depend on the build system?
> That sounds weird.
i'm making a fix to ctype.h that would utilize _COMPILING_NEWLIB as part of
its fix. i was holding off posting that until the question of this symbol
could be sorted out.
> I tested building on Cygwin, which looks good.
>
> So, here's a question: The patch is ok, just a change to the commit
> message would be nice. However, would you like to take the opportunity
> to change _COMPILING_NEWLIB to _LIBC throughout? That's something we
> should have done long ago, I guess.
let me do it as a series. _LIBC is already used in newlib, so i'm afraid
it might not be as clean as just renaming the define. but i'll give it a
shot and see what blows up.
-mike
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