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| author | Robert de Bath <rdebath@poboxes.com> | 1996-11-03 22:33:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> | 2013-10-23 23:33:35 +0200 |
| commit | c218c617b5be443b7968308506969ad2b726d73c (patch) | |
| tree | 0051f396af56133d24fcf2ab757fabc78c1a09bf /libc/README | |
| parent | 0936b9aeab611665645a4e6bafaded7ca76dd189 (diff) | |
| parent | 0d2fbe9b1bd284ce2cad55be17e8f2c896031a25 (diff) | |
| download | dev86-c218c617b5be443b7968308506969ad2b726d73c.tar.gz | |
Import Dev86src-0.0.8.tar.gzv0.0.8
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diff --git a/libc/README b/libc/README index feb6e4a..0b65f99 100644 --- a/libc/README +++ b/libc/README @@ -1,31 +1,37 @@ -The lib can be compiled five different ways for Linux-8086 standard, -Linux-8086 with 'First arg in AX', MS-DOS, BCC-386 or for GNU-386. At -the moment the 386 versions are missing some _very_ important bits. -This can be done by running. +The lib can be compiled six different ways for Linux-8086 standard, +Linux-8086 with 'First arg in AX', Linx-8086 standalone, MS-DOS, BCC-386 +or for GNU-386. At the moment the 386 GNU version will NOT work, the +BCC-386 is just barely working. + +This can be done by running one of. make PLATFORM=i86-FAST clean all make PLATFORM=i86-DOS clean all -an so on. + make PLATFORM=i86-BIOS clean all + make PLATFORM=i386-BCC clean all SYSTEM CALLS The system call table (syscalls/syscall.dat) is constantly changing, using skewed versions is _very_ likely to give you segfaults and strange behaviour. For this lib you should use the same version of elksemu. The system call table will only be frozen when the linux-86 kernel is -running and reasonably stable. +running and reasonably stable. The 386 version is using a distinct list +that matches the Linux-i386 syscall list. THE COMPILER You should use the versions of bcc, unproto, as86, ld86 and elksemu that are in this version of the combined development environment. Some other versions will work but often they'll just appear to work or not work at all. The standard bcc-cc1 won't pickup the right header files, the -standard ld86 won't generate COM files and looks in the wrong place for -crt0.o and libc.a. +standard ld86 won't generate COM files or 386-Linux files and looks in +the wrong place for crt0.o and libc.a. Main Subdirectories. bcc Lots of BCC helper functions +bios Minimal 'system' calls for standalone executables. error The C error functions. grp Routines for /etc/group, from Nat +i386fp BCC's floating point routines for 386 code. include Some include files, some new others Glib or Glib hacked. kinclude Kernel include files, here for now. malloc1 My malloc routines @@ -34,12 +40,12 @@ misc Various larger functions msdos This is the equlivent of the syscall directory for msdos. pwd Routines for /etc/passwd, from Nat regexp Standard regular expression parser -stdio1 Joel's standard I/O functions - as yet rather incomplete stdio2 My standard I/O string The functions for string.h -syscall All the system call functions, and a few tied lib ones. +syscall All the system call functions, and some tied lib ones. termios Termimal mode control. utmp /etc/utmp updating +time Unix time related functions. tests Various C programs used to test the lib. Directory structure: |