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[Ping] Fix gcc/gcov.c and libgcc/libgcov.c to fix build on VxWorks


Hi everyone,

Ping RE: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-06/msg00086.html

Thanks,

Robert Mason

On 06/01/2012 02:43 PM, rbmj wrote:
On 06/01/2012 02:40 PM, rbmj wrote:
Hi everyone,

These fixes are to allow building on vxWorks. Currently there are two issues:

1. VxWorks does not have a variadic open - it must receive three arguments. gcc/gcov.c however opens a file for reading and does not pass in a mode argument, which causes an error on vxWorks. This just adds a platform-based ifdef around this. I am aware that this is against coding conventions, and if that is an issue, I can think of two resolutions. One, an autoconf macro to check for a non-variadic open, or two, simply pass the extra mode argument in unconditionally, as it should be transparent to the function and ignored if it is variadic (I'm no expert on calling conventions though).

2. VxWorks has a two argument mkdir(). libgcc/libgcov.c uses mkdir() and calls it with two arguments if TARGET_POSIX_IO is defined and only one argument otherwise. I don't know what TARGET_POSIX_IO is, but if it's anything more than just mkdir(), this is probably correct, as vxworks is only partially POSIX compliant. Again, another platform-based ifdef, so if that is anathema, it can be replaced by more autoconf hackery.

The patch as-is compiles targeting on vxworks and bootstraps on a native x86_64-linux-gnu build (which makes sense, since it doesn't touch anything for non-vxworks).

Gerald Pfeifer has volunteered to apply the patch if approved.

Also, in an earlier message [1] Janne Blomqvist mentioned that newer versions of VxWorks do have the variadic open(), and this is true. However, as far as I know, this version is still not available for kernel modules, only real-time processes.

Thanks,

Robert Mason

Sorry, forgot to add in the link. [1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-05/msg01102.html



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