maximilian attems wrote:
hello karel,
thanks a lot for the klibc portability merges.
current HEAD klibc failure:
mkswap.c: In function ‘init_signature_page’:
mkswap.c:148: error: ‘_SC_PAGESIZE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
although POSIX encourages sysconf() could util-linux use getpagesize() ?
I should motivate this.
sysconf() is a multiplex API which invokes a large number of unrelated
data items. To support it in klibc, I would have to pull *all* the
sysconf items to support any single one, which would lead me with a
couple of choices:
1. Support a subset of sysconf() entries only, like _SC_PAGESIZE,
and perhaps a few which can be derived from static code.
2. Support as many sysconf() entries as possible, which would bloat
static binaries.
3. Implement sysconf() as a hideously ugly must_inline thing trying
to disambiguate the individual items, at least in the common case
of passing in a constant.
4. Implement sysconf() taking a function pointer, instead of int.
I'm not ruling this out, however, to the best of my knowledge
getpagesize() is more portable than sysconf() to anything Linux; I don't
know about non-Linux systems or if we care.
-hpa
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