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Re: C library re-entrancy under Zephyr

Rob Meades
 

Answering my own question for the benefit of anyone listening who didn’t already know: the answer is that the built-in minimal C library offers some functions re-entrantly and, if you chose to use newlib, memory allocation through malloc() etc. is re-entrant, it’s the other functions (stdio etc.) in the integration with newlib which are not reentrant.

 

Rob

From: Rob Meades
Sent: 11 March 2021 20:13
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@...>
Cc: users@...
Subject: RE: [Zephyr-users] C library re-entrancy under Zephyr

 

Just to be clear on this, is it true that re-entrancy is not supported by Zephyr for any of the newlib stdio.h or stdlib.h functions, so not just the likes of strok() but also snprintf() and, more fundamentally, malloc()/free()?

 

If this is the case, are there any other C libraries (so not newlib) for which Zephyr does support re-entrancy and which fulfil the same functions?

 

Rob

From: Dave Nadler <drn@...>
Sent: 11 March 2021 19:23
To: Rob Meades <Rob.Meades@...>; Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@...>
Cc: users@...
Subject: Re: [Zephyr-users] C library re-entrancy under Zephyr

 

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Hi Rob - Went through this a few years back with FreeRTOS.
The link below may be helpful.
Hope that helps!
Best Regards, Dave

 

 

On 3/11/2021 1:04 PM, Rob Meades via lists.zephyrproject.org wrote:

Thanks for the swift response.  That's a shame.  
I will go look at the PR at your link as shifting to the re-entrant versions just for Zephyr is going to be painful.
 
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: users@... <users@...> On Behalf Of Kumar Gala
Sent: 11 March 2021 17:54
To: Rob Meades <Rob.Meades@...>
Cc: users@...
Subject: Re: [Zephyr-users] C library re-entrancy under Zephyr
 
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Re-entrant support between newlib and zephyr is not currently supported.
 
There’s an old PR on the subject
 
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/21518
 
- k
 
On Mar 11, 2021, at 11:51 AM, Rob Meades via lists.zephyrproject.org <Rob.Meades=u-blox.com@...> wrote:
 
Should I expect C library functions (e.g. strtok()) under Zephyr to be re-entrant or must I call the re-entrant versions (i.e. in this case strtok_r())?
 
I ask because I am building/running nRF52840 (cortex-m4) and strok() _appears_ to NOT be re-entrant: I'd like to understand if this is expected or if I've messed up a configuration somewhere.  My prj.conf file is attached in case it is helpful in answering the question.
 
Rob
 
 
 
 
 
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