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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:14:55 +0100
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 12 11:51, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote:
>>>>> On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>> Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin
>>>>> But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless.  It looks like most of  
>>>>> the relevant symbols are in posix_ipc.cc, timer.cc, and times.cc, but  
>>>>> there are other symbols defined in the latter two that may not belong in  
>>>>> librt.
>>>> Certainly a good idea.  I don't know if it would hurt if too many
>>>> symbols could be linked against via librt.a.  We could move the
>>>> realtime functions from timer.cc and times.cc into its own source
>>>> file.  Or we could create it with only the symbols from posix_ipc.cc,
>>>> just so it is available for linking.
>>> For now I did the latter.  Adding more symbols to it shouldn't be much
>>> of a problem, if required.
>>   Shouldn't this reuse the speclib mechanism?
> 
> It does.

  Doh!  Sorry, didn't read that into your description of it.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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