[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Newlib reentrancy structure overhead

[Julian Brown]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> 
> unfortunately not.  newlib is designed as a reentrant library and has no 
> configure option to make it not so.
> 
> Of course, such capability could be added, but it would be significant 
> work and we have no current plans to do so.

(Internal only)

What does REENTRANT_SYSCALLS_PROVIDED do, then? I was vaguely under the 
impression it was possible to configure a non-reentrant Newlib, though 
it's been a long time since I played with that bit... of course, things 
will probably break if you do so anyway :-)

Cheers,

Julian