Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 10:46 schrieb Torsten Rupp: > Dear Brian, > > >>>(and I thought > >>>we agreed to get rid of these kind of macros and would use > >>> normal functions as much as possible in the future.) > >> > >>When I remember right, the agreement was not to remove the macros > >>completely, but instead make them into "alias"-names for target > >> specific implementations of some OS-function. > > > > I believe Mark is correct here, we agreed to turn the macros into > > real functions for debugging purposes. And we'll probably use > > autoconf feature testing for portability. Getting to the > > alias-names of some OS-function is a first step and then convert > > them into real functions. > > When I understand the message from Michael from Aug-11-2004 right, > we agreeded _not_ to remove the macro names completely (that would > mean aicas will be kicked out from Classpath native code; I tried > to explain this and why the macros are so important for aicas > already in several messages), but instead make the following > changes:
I wouldn't call this a decision. > Based on this idea I developed a POSIX-target layer. Unfortuantelly > I'm currently to busy with my daily work, thus I still could not > prepare the needed patches (which is also a difficult work). Soon I > will have enough time I like to do this. The main problem is that we have to get two groups under one hat. I still have to look into the code you sent to in private. Sorry, I had no time to do it yet. Michael -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
