Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:54:52 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Andrey Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "Scott Long" <scottl@samsco.org>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net, "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>, imp@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale utf8.c Message-ID: <6eb82e0710280154h68393dcag4e9ba4ac4c219065@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071027092213.GA53271@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200710150951.l9F9pUm7026506@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071025233536.B99770@fledge.watson.org> <472120E8.90504@samsco.org> <200710261144.34645.jhb@freebsd.org> <472217C2.8020800@samsco.org> <6eb82e0710260954m73b3f17bq2c72a4cdb597640e@mail.gmail.com> <6eb82e0710270130o5557efew95f62aef8035d209@mail.gmail.com> <20071027092213.GA53271@nagual.pp.ru>
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On 10/27/07, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:30:30PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > On 10/27/07, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > I admit that I really did a very bad abi damage on libc. I have been > > > working on it and > > > removing those inline __* functions in _ctype.h help. It can be upgraded and > > > also downgraded without problems. Without those inline stuffs, > > > buildworld+installworld > > > time difference is less than 60 seconds, which looks good. I will post the > > > patch after some more tests. > > > > > > As for RELENG_7 and HEAD, I'm not 100% sure whether we should restore > > > the compatibility as 1) 7.0 is not released yet, 2) we don't promise > > > anything in > > > HEAD branch. However, if most people think get rid of inline stuffs and > > > have libc compatibility are nice, then we do the same for those two branches. > > > > After some tests, the patch is at > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ctype-abi-fix-6.diff > > > > Let me describe this patch in more details. Fist, we actually > > compile those inline functions as real functions in > > lib/libc/locale/nomacro.c if _EXTERNAL_CTYPE_INLINES_ is defined. > > I make 4 inline functions that use the __mb_sb_limit symbol, > > which break the compatibility, always compiled as real functions. > > I also considered that moving those inlined function in another > > C file, but I think it would make the source codes diverse > > among 6 and 7/8. > > As a small improvement, we can skip __isctype() from this list too and > just hardcode 128 there, i.e.: return (_c < 0 || _c >= 128) ... > since default locale never define anything above 128. Thank you. A new patch is available at http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ctype-abi-fix-6-try2.diff Regards, Rong-En Fan
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