Am Friday 30 October 2015, 10:07:45 schrieb Sebastian Huber:
> On 30/10/15 09:53, Jan Sommer wrote:
> > Am Friday 30 October 2015, 07:50:16 schrieb Sebastian Huber:
> >> >How is this tackled in the glibc/Linux support? Is the exact layout of
> >> >the structures really interesting for Ada? I guess its sufficient to
> >> >tell Ada the size and alignment of pthread_attr_t for example.
> >> >
> > In Linux they do it like this:
> >     type pthread_attr_t is record
> >        Data : char_array (1 .. OS_Constants.PTHREAD_ATTR_SIZE);
> >     end record;
> >     pragma Convention (C, pthread_attr_t);
> >     for pthread_attr_t'Alignment use Interfaces.C.unsigned_long'Alignment;
> >
> > That's probably the best solution. The gnat-rts changes values of the 
> > fields only using the corresponding pthread_set functions.
> > If no one objects I would try to change the osinte-rtems.ads in the same 
> > manner.
> 
> This would be my preferred solution.
> 
> 

Ok, I have made the changes locally now, but how do I submit them to gcc?
Do I create patches only for gcc 4.9.x or do I need to get it into trunk and it 
gets backported?
Their contribute page does not read as clear to me as the rtems one.

Best regards,

    Jan

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