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diff --git a/libc/README b/libc/README index 2b4bbdc..feb6e4a 100644 --- a/libc/README +++ b/libc/README @@ -1,10 +1,3 @@ - -This is the README for libc-8086-0.0.4.tar.gz -Robert de Bath, 21/Mar/96, rdebath@cix.compulink.co.uk - -The lib is now positivly plump, there's a new standard IO package, passwd, -group, utmp, crypt and lots of other pieces. - 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. @@ -16,13 +9,13 @@ an so on. 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 (0.0.4). +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. THE COMPILER You should use the versions of bcc, unproto, as86, ld86 and elksemu that -are in version 0.0.4 combined development environment. Some other +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 @@ -59,8 +52,7 @@ Directory structure: Make config will look in all subdirectories for a file 'Config' any it finds will be displayed and can be used to switch a directory - on or off by renaming Makefile<->makefile. - (This seemed like a good idea, I'm not so sure now ...) + on or off. The exit(rv) function is already defined. It will call the contents of the function pointer (*__cleanup)() before it calls _exit(); |