Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hyperion] 36761: added lib/rtl/rtl-common.rbuild modified lib/rtl/rtl.rbuild Compile rtl twice, as rtl_umode and rtl_kmode. Allows conditional compilation of RTL (finally!), instead of necessitating hacks like RtlpGetMode() "rtl" mod

[Aleksey Bragin]

I knew about this post-factum, so let's gather opinions.

Advantage: It's like NT does, less hacks, possible removal of libsupp  
stuff in ntoskrnl, freeldr, ntdll, etc (which I actually thought  
would be done in the same commit).

Disadvantage: To be proper, you need a bootloader RTL too, otherwise  
RTL will still contain "necessitating hacks" aka libsupp stuff. This  
is gonna make at least 3x time RTL compilation. (thankfully / sadly  
we don't test it directly).


WBR,
Aleksey.



On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   Well, you just removed the one thing ReactOS did
> different from NT and
>  that I thought was really revolutionary and innovative, because it
>  saves on compile time. It's funny, because I've been trying to sell
>  this as a better approach to building RTL (It's built at least 4 times
>  in the real NT tree, I think -- loader, user-mode tools/testing,
>  kernel, user-mode).
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu