Unlimited objects patch from Chris Johns <ccj@acm.org>. Email follows:

    First, the unlimited patch. I have compiled the unlmited patch for the
    Linux posix BSP only and it seems to work cleanly. I would like a really
    major application run on this change before commiting as the changes are
    very core and significant. I am currently building all the tests to run.

    I have no targets suitable to test on at the moment.

    I have tested the patch for inline functions and macros.

    Turning macros on has found some core bugs. I have fixed these but have
    not run all the tests. Please review the patch for these changes. They
    are:

    1) The conditional compilation for MP support broke the core messages
    code. You cannot embed a conditional macro in another macro. The Send
    and Urgent Send calls are macros.

    2) User extensions handler initialisation now has two parameters. I have
    updated the macros to support the extra parameter.

    The patch also contains the gcc-target-default.cfg fix required to build
    the kernel. More of a by product than a fix for you.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/c/src/exec/sapi/include/rtems/config.h b/c/src/exec/sapi/include/rtems/config.h
index 5a01286059..ac2da06d97 100644
--- a/c/src/exec/sapi/include/rtems/config.h
+++ b/c/src/exec/sapi/include/rtems/config.h
@@ -22,6 +22,20 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 /*
+ *  Unlimited object support. Changes the configuration table entry for POSIX
+ *  or RTEMS APIs to bounded only by the memory of the work-space.
+ *
+ *  Use the macro to define the resource unlimited before placing in the configuration
+ *  table.
+ */
+
+#include <rtems/score/object.h>
+#define RTEMS_UNLIMITED_OBJECTS OBJECTS_UNLIMITED_OBJECTS
+  
+#define rtems_resource_unlimited(resource) \
+  ( resource | RTEMS_UNLIMITED_OBJECTS )
+    
+/*
  *  This is kind of kludgy but it allows targets to totally ignore the
  *  POSIX API safely.
  */