Patch from Eric Norum <eric@cls.usask.ca> to implement this:

    I'd like to propose a change to RTEMS task variables that I think would
    make them more useful.  I think that it is early enough in their
    existence to still make changes to their API.

    1) Change type from `int' to `void *'.
    2) Add extra argument to task_variable_add -- if non-NULL, a pointer to
    a `destructor' function to be called when the task exits.  This function
    would be called with that task's value of the task variable as its
    argument.  In many cases, the `dtor' function could be `free'.

    rtems_status_code rtems_task_variable_add (
      rtems_id tid, void **ptr, void (*dtor)(void *));
    rtems_status_code rtems_task_variable_delete (rtems_id tid, void **ptr);

    This would be all we'd need to cleanly and efficiently support C++
    per-thread exception information without dragging in all that POSIX API
    stuff.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cpukit/rtems/src/taskvariabledelete.c b/cpukit/rtems/src/taskvariabledelete.c
index eddaf1903d..c760f9ba39 100644
--- a/cpukit/rtems/src/taskvariabledelete.c
+++ b/cpukit/rtems/src/taskvariabledelete.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 rtems_status_code rtems_task_variable_delete(
   rtems_id  tid,
-  int      *ptr
+  void    **ptr
 )
 {
   Thread_Control        *the_thread;