[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Newlib reentrancy structure overhead

[Julian Brown]

Julian Brown wrote:
> 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 :-)

Sorry, apparently this wasn't internal only, and actually looking at the 
code, I appear to be totally wrong anyway. Ignore me... :-)

Cheers,

Julian