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Re: virtual vectors problem
- From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- To: bartv at ecoscentric dot com
- Cc: ecos-devel at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:55:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: virtual vectors problem
- References: <20040810094911.15223EC10C@delenn.bartv.net>
>>>>> Bart Veer writes:
> There is a problem with the current virtual vectors code and there are
> two obvious ways of resolving it. I have a personal preference, but
> some people may disagree.
...
> There are two obvious ways of fixing this situation. The first is to
> make the functions work, requiring some very simple changes. The
> second is to get rid of them completely. There is no eCos code which
> uses these virtual vector calls, and any such code would be better off
> #include'ing hal_cache.h and invoking the proper HAL macros directly.
> The only problem is if there is any non-eCos code, e.g. something in
> the libgloss/newlib world, that sits on top of RedBoot and expects
> these virtual vector functions to exist. Any such non-eCos code will
> never have worked properly in the past, but if we consider this to be
> part of the supported API then we should fix it.
I think that these were probably included because they were part
the old CygMon syscall services. I don't know of any apps that use
them (newlib/libgloss do not), so just removing them should be
fine.
--Mark