This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: missing functions


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to Christopher Faylor on 5/14/2007 6:53 AM:
>> Does cygwin care about providing reentrant versions of functions?
>> There is precedent for doing this: as an example, cygwin.din already
>> exports asprintf_r.
> 
> That was probably one of many ill-conceived entries in cygwin.din, then.
> If there is no POSIX or linux version of a function there is no reason
> to export it.

Then here's the revised list of functions I still think are worth exporting:

_Exit
asnprintf
dprintf
vasnprintf
vdprintf

And seeing as how Linux does not yet provide [v]asnprintf, here are my
arguments for exporting it:

http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2007/msg00403.html

In other words, there are several existing programs ported to cygwin that
would benefit from smaller size and slightly faster execution if asnprintf
were exposed as part of cygwin1.dll, and the size impact to cygwin1.dll to
provide this nice hook is much smaller than the impact of implementing
asnprintf in program space as a less efficient wrapper around snprintf.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFGSGB384KuGfSFAYARAqp3AJ0TQo1XUkDkaj4ekTUpzDx1xmfGxwCdFu+z
sAFwbVkqAtIgUyFQa7LL2z0=
=mlZ4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]