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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject:	ANNOUNCE: libsupp 5.0 for DJGPP 2.03 and 2.04 uploaded.
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2008 23:36:33 +0200
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This is libsupp 5.0 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.

 The following functions from djdev204 (the same as from the CVS repository)
 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
 path string "c:/foo/bar/*.*/link.txt" without removing the "*.*" before appending.
 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 new 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 have been removed.  The goal is to have the necessary POSIX support
 available to open/change 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'.


 The following functions have already been provided in previous versions of this
 library:
   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()

 The strndup() and strnlen() functions have been implemented to improve
 compatibility with GNU glibc.

 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.

 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$-3õ½d", where h are hexadecimal
             digits, p stands for the power of 2 and d is exponent expressed
             in decimal digits.  %a prints lower case characters and %A prints
             upper case characters.
      %n$: 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.



 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 lsupp50a.zip      or
   djtarx lsupp50a.zip       or
   pkunzip -d lsupp50a.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 lsupp50s.zip      or
   djtarx lsupp50s.zip       or
   pkunzip -d lsupp50s.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 strptime() can be found at:
   <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/printf.html>




 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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