Re: [rtems] Tweaks to sys/features.h

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

Howland Craig D (Craig) wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to define _POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS with value
> -1 than to have it not defined?  That way it is known at compile time
> that there is no support, rather than needing to wait for runtime for a
> sysconf() call.
>   
If that's what people are expecting to test for then yes.

And FWIW RTEMS supports sysconf() but doesn't have
a lot of cases in its implementation.  What sysconf value
covers this one?

--joel
> 				Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newlib-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:newlib-owner@sourceware.org]
> On Behalf Of Ralf Corsepius
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:08 AM
> To: Newlib List
> Subject: [rtems] Tweaks to sys/features.h
>
> Hi again,
>
> another RTEMS specific newlib patch, we'd like to see merged into
> newlib.
>
> This patch address 2 issue with sys/features.h:
> * POSIX/SUSv3 mandates _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK to be set to -1, 0 or
> 200112L. RTEMS supports _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK but doesn't support
> sysconf(), so it must be set 200112L.
>
> * RTEMS doesn't support _POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS. The setting having
> been used so far was wrong.
>
> Ralf
>
>   


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