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Subject: RE: RFC: libCom/osi - new spinlock API
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:00:13 +0000
Hi Ralph,

I don't know the details, but I suspect this will impact the large number of sites (like Diamond) that have not upgraded to VxWorks 6. This may be because when EPICS moved to 3.14 and the IOC became portable, a lot of us decided that our futures lay elsewhere. Our VxWorks (5.5.1) compiler says:

[npr78@cs03r-sc-serv-16 ~]$ ccppc -v
Reading specs from /dls_sw/targetOS/vxWorks/Tornado-2.2/host/i386-Linux/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-wrs-vxworks/gcc-2.96/specs
gcc version gcc-2.96 (2.96+) 19990621 AltiVec

... and the VxWorks unistd.h defines:

/* POSIX defines */

#ifndef _POSIX_VERSION
#define _POSIX_VERSION 199506L
#endif

#ifndef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199506L
#endif

Cheers

Nick Rees
Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ralph Lange [[email protected]]
Sent: 24 October 2012 14:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RFC: libCom/osi - new spinlock API

Hi,

to get access to the Posix spinlocks, one must set
-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L (or greater).
Currently, base uses -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.

Should we change this globally? Would this break anything?

Clueless,
~Ralph

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