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This is libsupp 6.1 for MSDOS/DJGPP.
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 repository 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.
This is a bug fix release.
The following functions have been reimplemented:
mblen()
mbsinit()
mbrtowc()
mbtowc()
They work all with a mbstate_t structure like the one defined by GNU glibc
instead of the one provided by DJGPP's libc. Please note that although the
structure records the conversion state no reentrancy neither support for
for anything else than POSIX/C locale is provided. Also note that the
structure and the functions replace the ones that come with DJGPP, so you
cannot use both in the same code segment. The only reason to provide these
functions is to ease porting efforts. If you prefer to use the original
versions of these functions that come with DJGPP's libc.a, then use the
macro USE_DJGPP_MBTOWC_FCTNS like this:
gcc -DUSE_DJGPP_MBTOWC_FCTNS -O2 -c code.c
or define it in your source file before including libsupp.h:
#define USE_DJGPP_MBTOWC_FCTNS
#include <libsupp.h>
If USE_DJGPP_MBTOWC_FCTNS is not defined always the libsupp versions will be
used; if USE_DJGPP_MBTOWC_FCTNS is defined always the DJGPP versions will be
used.
The following functions have already been provided in previous versions of
this library:
access()
__chdir()
_fixpath()
__canonicalize_path()
realpath()
lstat() only for 2.04
stat() only for 2.03
symlink() only for 2.03
opendir()
readdir()
rewinddir()
__set_need_fake_dot_dotdot()
open()
close()
fchdir()
strndup()
strnlen()
argz_add()
argz_add_sep()
argz_append()
argz_count()
argz_create()
argz_createsep()
argz_delete()
argz_extract()
argz_insert()
argz_next()
argz_replace()
argz_stringify()
strtod()
strtof()
strtold()
signbit()
__signbitd()
__signbitf()
__signbitld()
asnprintf()
asprintf()
cprintf()
fprintf()
fseeko()
ftello()
printf()
snprintf()
sprintf()
vasnprintf()
vasprintf()
vfprintf()
vprintf()
vsnprntf()
vsprintf()
_doprnt()
Version 6.0:
============
The following function:
strftime()
has been modified to improve the compatibility with ANSI/POSIX and the GNU glibc.
The following functions have been implemented:
towlower()
mbsinit()
mbrtowc()
memmem()
strlcat()
strlcpy()
1) In the current DJGPP's cvs version of strftime the following conversion
specifiers are missed and have been implemented: %F, %G, %g and %V. They
all concern the year, week and date representation according to ISO 8601:2000.
A comparision with GNU libc shows that also the %P and %s specifiers must be
implemented. The %s specifier computes the seconds since 1970-01-01 using
mktime(). Also the modifiers E and O have been implemented. These flags are
ignored because DJGPP's implementation of strftime only supports the C/POSIX
locale. Also the GNU specific # flag, that changes the case for certain
conversion specifiers has been implemented. The parsing of the format string
now allows any order of the flags.
2) towlower() is a wrapper to tolower(). If the wchar is less than 0xFF, it
is passed to tolower, else it is returned unaltered. It is implemented to
ease porting efforts.
3) mbsinit() is implemented for easing porting efforts.
4) mbrtowc() is a wrapper to mbtowc with the goal to ease porting efforts.
The wrapper does not provide any reentrant capability.
5) memmem() is a GNU compatibility function to ease porting efforts.
6) strlcat() and strlcpy() are replacement versions of the functions that are
part of DJGPP's libc. These routines have been deliberately designed to not
require any assistance from the standard libraries. They have been coded and
contributed by C.B. Falconer. The original archive that includes the original
BSD documentation can be downloaded as:
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/strlcpy.zip>
If you prefer to use the versions of these functions that come with libc.a,
then use the macro USE_DJGPP_STRL_FCTNS like this:
gcc -DUSE_DJGPP_STRL_FCTNS -O2 -c code.c
or define it in your source file before including libsupp.h:
#define USE_DJGPP_STRL_FCTNS
#include <libsupp.h>
If USE_DJGPP_STRL_FCTNS is not defined always the libsupp versions will be used.
It should be noticed that none of the functions concerning multibyte and reentrancy
issues improves the DJGPP capability beyond the existing one. All these functions
are only wrappers to allow to port certain GNU programs that expect that these
functions are available.
Version 5.3:
============
This is a bug fix release.
One issue has been fixed in function:
__canonicalize_path
__canonicalize_path, that is used by realpath and _fixpath, will no longer set
errno to ENOSYS to signal that the used OS does not provide a LFN API. This
value of errno does not reflect the result of the operation performed to
canonicalize the given path and will confuse the calling function of realpath or
_fixpath. This bug appears in both versions of libc.a, the one of djdev204
and the one of djdev203.
Version 5.2:
============
This is a bug fix release.
Two issues have been fixed in function:
__get_current_directory
1) Apart from upper case drive specifier characters, now lower case
drive specifier characters will also be recognized as valid drive
specifiers.
2) For WinNT/2K/XP with LFN enabled if the CWD is the root directory,
a malformed path string is returned as canonicalized path by _fixpath
and realpath. For example if the path string "foo/bar" was passed as
argument to _fixpath, "C:\/foo/bar" will be returned, assuming that
CWD is "c:/". Please note the backslash after the drive specifier.
This bug appears in both versions of libc.a, the one of djdev204 and the
one of djdev203. __get_current_directory() is an internal function of
__canonicalize_path() that is used by _fixpath, realpath, lstat and some
others file system functions. This implies that this version of libsupp
will provide all functions that depend of the patched function to replace
their original versions of libc.a. These are:
access()
__chdir()
_fixpath()
__canonicalize_path()
realpath()
lstat() only for 2.04
stat() only for 2.03
symlink() only for 2.03
Depending of the value of __DJGPP_MINOR__ ones or the other ones will be
available.
Version 5.1:
============
The following function was wrong implemented and has been fixed accordingly:
strndup()
and the missed function:
closedir()
has been added.
A new fix provided by Andris Pavenis for ieeefp.h has been applied. Also a
bug fix in the symlink supporting code in readdir has been added. This fix
resolves a problem where every 510 byte long file that is not a symlink sets
errno to EINVAL. Now the original errno is preserved.
Version 5.0:
============
The following functions have been modified to fix a bug.
opendir()
readdir()
rewinddir()
__set_need_fake_dot_dotdot()
The bug is in the code segment of readdir() that handles the symlink files and
thus is only triggerd if the file is a symlink. The reason for the bug is the
different assumption about what should be the content of member string "name"
in the "DIR" structure. In the version fixed by me, the containt of "name"
will be the canonicalized path as returned by _fixpath() with an appended slash.
In the original version, there was a "*.*" string appended to the end of the
member string "name" in the "DIR" structure. If this is forgotten and a new
string is appended to the end of "name", then a useless dir name string is
produced that makes fail all functions that use it.
E.G.:
dir->name = "c:/foo/bar/*.*"
as it may be produced by opendir(). The symlink code in readdir() tries
to append the name of the link file (e.g.: link.txt) and produces the new
DIR structure member:
dir->name = "c:/foo/bar/*.*/link.txt"
that is not a valid path string. The function versions of djdev203 have the
same "malformed" path in "name" but because they have not the symlink code,
they do not need to be modified. This means, that only if you compile your
application with djdev204.zip, the above mentioned functions in djdev204 will
be replaced by the ones provided by this version of libsupp.
To ease the porting of POSIX centric source code for people still using
djdev203, the following functions are provided:
open()
close()
fchdir()
These functions have been taken from the CVS reporitory and the whole symlink
support has been removed. The goal is to have the necessary POSIX support
available to open directories using fchdir(). Because the symlink support has
been completely removed, the mode bits O_NOLINK and O_NOFOLLOW will be ignored.
These functions are only intended to be used with djdev203 and will only be
available if __DJGPP_MINOR__ is equal '3'.
Version 4.0:
============
The strndup() and strnlen() functions have been implemented to improve
compatibility with GNU glibc.
Version 3.0:
============
The argz functions store strings in a contiguous chunk of memory using '\0' as
separator token. They are GNU extensions to glibc and have been implemented
to make porting easier.
The strto[dfld] functions now support the conversion of the hex format strings
like this:
"0xh.hhhhP[+|-]ddd"
into variables of the type float, double and long double.
Version 2.0:
============
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().
Version 1.0:
============
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
stored in the CVS tree as checked out on 2008-09-17. 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 using diffs-cvs and build
your own libc.a with the proposed new functionality or if you prefer to
continue using libc.a distributed by djdev203 or djdev204 together with this
library.
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 lsupp61a.zip or
djtarx lsupp61a.zip or
pkunzip -d lsupp61a.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
Building the binaries from sources.
===================================
The library can *only* be build with *djdev204*.
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 lsupp61s.zip or
djtarx lsupp61s.zip or
pkunzip -d lsupp61s.zip
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>
The description of signbit() can be found at:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/signbit.html>
The description of strto[dfld]() can be found at:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/strtod.html>
The description of strftime() can be found at:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/strftime.html>
The library consists of two packages produced using djdev204 and can be
downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2009-01-08):
Libsupp 6.1 header file, library and info format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp61a.zip
Libsupp 6.1 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp61s.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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