Re: [MiNT] patch:MiNT:single-task

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 17:40 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > Helmut,
> >
> > It sounds like this is more useful in the DEBUG FreeMiNT kernel.
> 
> Why? I don't want to debug MiNT but my programs.

Actually ignore the comment about DEBUG kernels.

> > I think I'd be happy wrapping this up with that as it seems that the
> > Pure-Debugger is a pretty low level application and using that with a
> > FreeMiNT kernel with DEBUG capabilities sounds like a match.
> >
> > How about wrapping your patch hunks with...
> >
> > #ifdef SINGLE_TASK
> > ....
> > #endif
> >
> > and then in KERNELDEFS you can add SINGLE_TASK as a new build option.
> >
> > You could commit your code as is then but it would be easy to disable if
> > there are problems.
> 
> I personally wouldn't care about this. But then the users that do not
> compile themselves would not be able to use it. It's not just
> pure-debugger but also pure-pascal. And it's made sure that normal mode
> is not affected.
> 
> What do other people think about this?
> 
> 
> The #ifdef is a good idea though.

If we have a #ifdef wrapping the code we can disable if problems are
discovered.

Alan.