[U-Boot] [PATCH 02/10] Add some standard headers external code might need

[Masahiro YAMADA]

Hi Simon,


2014-10-29 1:29 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> On 28 October 2014 10:25, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gabe, Simon,
>>
>>
>> 2014-10-15 19:38 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> > From: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
>> >
>> > inttypes.h defines format specifiers for printf which work with data types of
>> > particular sizes. stdlib.h is currently just a passthrough to malloc.h which
>> > has declarations of the various *alloc functions.
>> >
>> > Add the required #define to common.h so that these printf format specifiers
>> > will be made available.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at google.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
>> > Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
>> > Reviewed-by: Bill Richardson <wfrichar at google.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> > (Replaced with a GPL version from glibc)
>> >
>> [snip]
>> > diff --git a/include/stdlib.h b/include/stdlib.h
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..6bc7fbb
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/include/stdlib.h
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
>> > +/*
>> > + *  Copyright (C) 2013 Google Inc.
>> > + *
>> > + * SPDX-License-Identifier:    GPL-2.0+
>> > + */
>> > +
>> > +#ifndef __STDLIB_H_
>> > +#define __STDLIB_H_
>> > +
>> > +#include <malloc.h>
>> > +
>> > +#endif /* __STDLIB_H_ */
>> > --
>> > 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
>>
>>
>> This patch is not clear to me.
>>
>> Why do we need include/stdlib.h ?
>
> This makes the U-Boot environment more similar to that used by other
> software, so we can more easily build it without lots of glue files.
> Normally stdlib.h defines malloc() and friends.

I am not happy about this.

Our right direction is to make U-Boot environment more similar to the
Kernel, I think.

stdlib.h shouldn't appear in bare metal code.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada