Re: [PATCH v2] linker set: Allow adding any variable into content

2016-08-01 Thread Christian Mauderer
Am 02.08.2016 um 03:08 schrieb Chris Johns: > On 02/08/2016 01:38, Gedare Bloom wrote: >> The code looks fine, but I don't quite understand the >> purpose/usefulness of the change. > > I am wondering if this makes porting BSD user code to RTEMS easier by > grouping variables. > > I would like to

Re: [PATCH v2] linker set: Allow adding any variable into content

2016-08-01 Thread Chris Johns
On 02/08/2016 01:38, Gedare Bloom wrote: The code looks fine, but I don't quite understand the purpose/usefulness of the change. I am wondering if this makes porting BSD user code to RTEMS easier by grouping variables. I would like to see a doc ticket created to be completed once I branch t

Re: [PATCH v2] linker set: Allow adding any variable into content

2016-08-01 Thread Gedare Bloom
The code looks fine, but I don't quite understand the purpose/usefulness of the change. On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Christian Mauderer wrote: > From: Christian Mauderer > > The newly created macro allows to add any kind of variable into the > content of a linker set. This allows (for example

[PATCH v2] linker set: Allow adding any variable into content

2016-08-01 Thread Christian Mauderer
From: Christian Mauderer The newly created macro allows to add any kind of variable into the content of a linker set. This allows (for example) saving an execution state of a function using the following method: - put a group of different variables into one linker set - save the memory area cont