On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:10 PM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:07 PM Aditya Upadhyay <aadit0...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:58 PM Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you have finished ndbm, please do not attempt to write memcpy for 
>> > SPARC. It is not as important as having fenv.h methods. We have a default 
>> > memcpy implementation for all architectures. The hope was to find an 
>> > already implemented optimized version with history for the SPARC. But so 
>> > far we haven't found one with appropriate license. It will be difficult to 
>> > implement, ensure correctness, and really gain speed.
>> >
>> > So work on filling a gap in what APIs are provided. Fenv.h
>> >
>> > Also we need to work on merging your ndbm work.
>> >
>> Newlib-Cygwin uses db_local.h and it was ported from FreeBSD. Since
>> that, A lot thing has changed.
>> If we replace this db_local.h to current freeBSD db.h, then we also
>> need to make changes in other file such
>> as hash.c.
>>
>> What is your view on this? Shall we ask this on newlib mailing list?
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> I stepped up for this after the suggestion of gedare. Planned to update whole 
> of search directory.
> I asked this query on newlib, but they haven't replied yet. We can re-send 
> this query.

Yeah. You can resend that mail.  Did you find any porting source for
fenv methods?
If not, Then you can take a look here:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/msun/arm/fenv.c

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>> > --joel
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 5:54 AM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> 
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >> I am reading about memcpy to write it for newlib.
>> >> Should I also write wmemcpy along with it? 
>> >> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/wmemcpy.html
>> >> .
>> >> Regarding ndbm reference. RSB has not generated library files.
>> >> - but in newlib source tree, when I compiled newlib, while porting ndbm, 
>> >> it generated lib_a-ndbm.o object file.
>> >> - I am planning to use that object file to compile ndbm testsuite.
>> >> .
>> >> When Object file and C file are present in same directory, we can use :
>> >> $ gcc trial.c mylib.o
>> >> But I am not able to find out, how to use this in Makefile.am.
>> >> LDADD replaces all global variables while compiling.
>> >>
>> >> I tried various codes, but could not solve it. I just want to use the 
>> >> object file (lib_a-ndbm.o)
>> >> created while building newlib, to compile ndbm testsuite.
>> >>
>> >> I need guidance for this.
>> >>
>> >> Vaibhav Gupta
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:57 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 7:20 AM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> 
>> >>> wrote:
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>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 6:19 PM Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 8:40 AM Vaibhav Gupta 
>> >>> >> <vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 5:57 PM Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote:
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> You need to add the library to the gcc command that links the 
>> >>> >>>> program. If the libndbm is in the library search path, add -lndbm.
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> I don't recall the exact Makefile variable to set for this to show 
>> >>> >>>> up. Look at the paranoia sample. It should be doing this with -lm.
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> --joel
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Okay, I will try this!
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> The following web page is a pretty good description of building a 
>> >>> >> library using a native GCC and linking it into a program. It includes 
>> >>> >> some of the theory going on so this might help you.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/howto_C_libraries.html
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Guys.. this comes up periodically, even though this is really basic 
>> >>> >> tool usage to me, is this something we should provide some guidance 
>> >>> >> on?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Actually, i tried this before, but I cannot find libndbm in my 
>> >>> > development directory. I guess it is not generated.
>> >>> > .
>> >>> > One thing I can do is, the newlib-cygwin i compiled while porting 
>> >>> > ndbm, it generated ndbm library. I can use that.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, the library should be 'bundled' with the updated compiler
>> >>> toolchain. You need to be sure you are using this toolchain. Is it
>> >>> what you installed to /home/varodek/development/rtems/5 ?
>> >>>
>> >>> Gedare
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