Re: [PATCH] libc: Replace i386/sys/fenv.h symlink with an #include shim

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Mar 13 19:11, David Macek via Newlib wrote:
> > > More to the point, how big of an issue would be to duplicate the file?
> >
> > I'm not hot on duplicating an identical file, it just raises maintenance
> > cost.  I'm currently looking into a solution to share the file without
> > duplicating it.
> 
> Something like a Makefile rule?

A bit more complicated in fact.  I added a new topic branch called
topic/shared_arch_headers to the upstream repo, containing a single
patch

  a8cd2849ed0c Add build mechanism to share common header files between
               machines

This patch introduces a new way to share header files between
architectures, not share by other architectures.

I tried to change this in a generic way.  The fenv stuff in this patch
is basically just the first user of this new mechanism.

As a side-effect, this also allows to remove Cygwin's own fenv code
finally, which was already pretty much the same as newlib's x86 code
anyway.  The major exception was the call to _feinitialise in Cygwin DLL
startup.  Given that the newlib fenv code is auto-initializing, this can
go away.  Cygwin just has to keep the _feinitialise entry point for
backward compatibility for apps built in a certain time frame.

David, Joel, anybody else interested in this stuff, please inspect
this patch on the topic/shared_arch_headers branch thorougly.  I will
not push this quickly, since we're in the process of releasing Cygwin
3.2.0.  I don't want to destabilise the release without need :)


Thanks,
Corinna