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Re: A quick note on <newlib.h>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> This is one of the reasons that I'm getting sick of our dependency on
> newlib. I've asked that cygwin be taken into account when making
> changes like this but, the last I heard, the newlib guys were stalled
> trying to accommodate my request since the two year old gcc cross
> compiler that they insist on using is no longer able to build cygwin.
>
> It's easy enough to add another include path to cygwin but I'm not sure
> that I want to do that. I think, instead, I'm going to start thinking
> about how we can eliminate our dependency on newlib.
>
There's always the possibility of a fork. :o You could then remove the
rtems specifics and the linux specifics and the ... I've not noticed any
major changes to the core functions so it wouldn't hurt.
Earnie.