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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote:
>>> On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin
>>> But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless.  It looks like most of  
>>> the relevant symbols are in posix_ipc.cc, timer.cc, and times.cc, but  
>>> there are other symbols defined in the latter two that may not belong in  
>>> librt.
>> Certainly a good idea.  I don't know if it would hurt if too many
>> symbols could be linked against via librt.a.  We could move the
>> realtime functions from timer.cc and times.cc into its own source
>> file.  Or we could create it with only the symbols from posix_ipc.cc,
>> just so it is available for linking.
> 
> For now I did the latter.  Adding more symbols to it shouldn't be much
> of a problem, if required.

  Shouldn't this reuse the speclib mechanism?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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