Re: [PATCH newlib 0/1] sys/signal.h needs sys/_intsup.h

C Howland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <CANk6obSFWTmMV1N72vVSnYyDdJdL7r6b0P-rzNXb0-bQ7TqS5A@mail.gmail.com>
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> *From:* Newlib <[email protected]> on
> behalf of Joel Sherrill <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 27, 2021 9:47 AM
> *To:* Newlib <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: Fw: [PATCH newlib 0/1] sys/signal.h needs sys/_intsup.h
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> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 5:16 AM Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > On Aug 26 18:28, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > We recently added this to sys/signal.h:
> > >
> > > #if __STDINT_EXP(INT_MAX) > 0x7fff
> > > #define SIG2STR_MAX (sizeof("RTMAX+") + sizeof("4294967295") - 1)
> > > #else
> > > #define SIG2STR_MAX (sizeof("RTMAX+") + sizeof("65535") - 1)
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > And -ffreestanding breaks that. I see two solutions:
> > >
> > > (1) Add __STDINT_EXP to gcc's stdint-gcc.h
> > > (2) Switch that #if to something else
> > >
> > > I think something like this is an OK substitute works equivalently:
> > >
> > > #if __SIZEOF_INT__ > 2
> >
> > or even __SIZEOF_INT__ >= 4 to be extra *extra* paranoid, but yeah,
> > sure, go ahead.  The commmit message should just briefly explain the
> > freestanding implementation issue.
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> Patch posted. Hopefully the commit message is clear enough.
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> This one definitely is in the land of subtle small things.
>
> Thanks for the feedback and push to look for a deeper explanation.
>
> --joel
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> >
> > Corinna
>

 Just to close out the details on this more-esoteric subject:
-ffreestanding is improper for using Newlib, so we don't need to account
for it in general.  (A freestanding implementation may only use a subset of
the library, and stdint.h is not one of that list--which in C11 is
<float.h>, <iso646.h>, <limits.h>, <stdalign.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stdbool.h>,
<stddef.h>, <stdint.h>,and <stdnoreturn.h>.)  So the original is fine, but
so is the tweak.
Craig
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