From: "Tom Demmer" Organization: Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB To: George Foot , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:47:35 GMT-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Suggestion: Portability section for libc docs Reply-to: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De Message-ID: <1B0D5C30BAC@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Precedence: bulk [...] > > I'm not sure, re: the comment about fork; this is a case of a function > which is not fully functional in djgpp. These docs are probably only used > by people developping under djgpp (is that a valid assumption?) and such > people are probably unlikely to use Unixy functions that djgpp only really > provides to simplify porting from Unix. OTOH, it might be wise to point > out that djgpp's behaviour in these cases is atypical -- but the docs > already do that IIRC. The assumption is invalid ;-) I do devolepment with RHIDE and move the stuff to the UNIX machines. [...] > > I think a sensible first move would be to parse the header files and > derive a list of functions in each category (ANSI, POSIX, neither) from > the header files. Yes, but I think we can go on. [...] Ciao Tom ****************************************************************** * Thomas Demmer * Phone : +49 234 700 6434 * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * Fax : +49 234 709 4162 * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * * D-44780 Bochum * * ****************************************************************** * Email: demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De * * WWW: http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * ****************************************************************** UNIX _IS_ user friendly -- it's just selective about who its friends are