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| Subject: | ANNOUNCE: libsupp 2.0 for DJGPP 2.03 and 2.04 uploaded.
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| Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:45:40 +0100
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This is libsupp 2.0 for MSDOS/DJGPP.
1.: Introduction.
=============
This is a support library for DJGPP 2.04 and 2.03. It shall provide a
small set of new functions that still have not been implemented for DJGPP
or improved versions of functions from DJGPP's CVS source tree so that
the original functions provided with DJGPP's libc.a (2.04 and 2.03) can
be replaced with these new ones.
The decision which function is part and which one is not part of this
library is based on the usefullnes for porting current GNU packages. If
the amount of provided functions increases in the future will depend on
the requirements of the GNU packages to be ported.
The following functions are provided:
signbit()
__signbitd()
__signbitf()
__signbitld()
asnprintf()
asprintf()
cprintf()
fprintf()
fseeko()
ftello()
printf()
snprintf()
sprintf()
vasnprintf()
vasprintf()
vfprintf()
vprintf()
vsnprntf()
vsprintf()
_doprnt()
signbit returns 0 if the sign of the mantissa of a floating point number
is positive; if the sign is negative it returns non-zero.
__signbit[dfld] are the internal implementations and should not be called
except through the macro signbit.
fseeko() and ftello() are wrappers for fseek() and ftell().
Apart from the features already provided by the familiy of printf()
functions from djdev204, this version of the functions will provide:
1: Flags.
': This flag allows to format the integer part with the thousands'
character. Because DJGPP only offers C/POSIX locale and this
do not define a thousands' character the flag is ignored.
2: Length modifiers.
DJGPP provides all of them.
3: Conversion specifiers.
%F: 'F' Has been added and works like 'f'.
%[aA]: With this conversion specifier a floating point number will be
converted in the style "[-]0xh.hhhhp[+-]d", where h are hexadecimal
digits, p stands for the power of 2 and d is exponent expressed
in decimal digits. %a prints lower case characters and %A
prints upper case characters.
%n$: This implementation of printf family of functions also supports
*n$ numbered conversion specifiers (%n$ for defining the position
of the argument to be printed in the argument list, and *n$ for
defining the position of the field width and precision to be
used in the argument list).
4: To increase compatibility with glibc's printf, _doprnt() has been
changed to return for 80 bit floating point numbers starting with
0 integer bit and non-zero exponent (Pseudo-NaN, Pseudo-Infinity,
Pseudo-Zero and denormalized numbers (unnormal)) "nan" or "NAN"
instead of "Unnormal" as used to be. This may break backward
compatibility but makes it easier to port GNU programs.
To be able to use the new functions you will have to include the header
(libsupp.h) in your source code. This header will provide the macros
to map the conventional function names to their real library names.
All library names start with the prefix "libsupp_". E.g.:
printf --> libsupp_printf
If you still use djdev203 then the header will also provide the data
types definitions for intmax_t and uintmax_t. The definitios have been
taken from stdint.h and I have not been able to figure out a way to
check if your code already provides a definition of these data types,
so these are always defined and this may trigger warnings or errors when
your code is compiled. If this happens it will be your job to fix your
code.
Because the provided functions depend on other libc functions, this
library must be linked before the standard C library, libc.a, is linked
into your programs by gcc. E.g.:
gcc -Wall -O2 prog.c -lsupp
The /diffs directory contains two patches that documents the changes I
have done. The diffs-cvs patch shows all changes I have done against
the sources of the CVS tree as checked out on 2008-03-10. The second
patch is diffs-lib and shows the changes against the *patched* checked
out CVS sources that are required to create the sources of this library.
It is your choice if you prefer to check out the CVS sources, patch them
and build your own libc.a with the proposed new functionality or if you
prefer to use this library.
2.: Installation.
=============
The binary package provides a header file, libsupp.h, the library file,
libsupp.a, and the info docs. All this is installed in the standard
places of your DJGPP installation tree. Copy the binary distribution
into the top DJGPP installation directory, just unzip it preserving
the directory structure running *one* of the following commands:
unzip32 lsupp20a.zip or
djtarx lsupp20a.zip or
pkunzip -d lsupp20a.zip
You must add an entry in your /info/dir file to be able to read the
docs. Edit manually your /info/dir and add the following lines:
From lsuppNNa.zip
* libsupp.a: (libsupp).
The Support Library Reference
3.: Building the binaries from sources.
===================================
The library can *only* be build with *djdev204*.
3.1.: Create a temporary directory and copy the source package into the
directory. Just unzip it preserving the directory structure running
*one* of the following commands:
unzip32 lsupp20s.zip or
djtarx lsupp20s.zip or
pkunzip -d lsupp20s.zip
3.2.: To build the library cd into the top srcdir and run the shell script
like this:
sh mklib.sh
The script accepts only a single optional argument that specifies the
installation directory. If it is omitted the products will be stored
in the /_build_ directory created in the top srcdir.
The script will build the library and the info docs; if everything is
successfully build then the test program in the /tests directory is
build and started. The output of the test program ist stored in
/tests/test.txt for inspection. During the building of the test
program a lot of warnings will appear. This is intentional to test
that the compiler recognizes the new functions as functions of the type
of *printf family and produces the typical warnings if flag combinations
are used that are not allowed or defined.
You *cannot* build the library with djdev203. If you want to run the
test program with djdev203 and the library compile it with a command
like this:
gcc -Wall -O2 test.c -o test.exe -lsupp
start it and inspect the output stored in test.txt.
The description of printf() can be found at:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/printf.html>
4.: Downloading.
============
The library consists of two packages that have been compiled using
djdev204 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
as (timestamp 2008-03-23):
libsupp 2.0 header, lib and info docs:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp20a.zip
libsupp 2.0 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp20s.zip
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the library to
comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
Enjoy.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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