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From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: 4 Sep 2000 14:06:56 GMT
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Edmund Horner (ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz) wrote:
: I know it sounds selfish, but what about the core DJGPP distribution: are
: there any opportunities for improvement in the libraries, documentation,
: etc.?  (I'm particularly interested in the libraries.)  Or are these too
: fragile to really support patches from realitive newcomers?

Not at all. I'd never looked at DJGPP's library sources and managed to
add the *ran48() functions.

Then (without having done any interrupt programming on DOZE) I managed
to add FAT32 support (which does involve interrupts).

This was of course with the help of the people on the djgpp-workers
list (most notably Eli's whose keyboard never wears out it seems).

The new C99 standard need some eager coders. Wide character support
e. g. 

Eli mentioned once that the were a lot of functionality that the GNU
configure scripts looked for and never found that would be nice to 
have. (Alas I don't know what.) 

Welcome onboard!


Damian: Try a "df" on your FAT32 drive or seek to offset 2^31+1 and
write to a file and see what you get (untested and I'm not sure it
will fail - it was several months ago I coded that).


Right,

						MartinS