X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: 048321887-0001 AT t-online DOT de Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Adding 64-bit file support to DJGPP Date: 18 Jan 2006 16:36:58 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1137631018.427224.240460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1137560452 DOT 398133 DOT 301490 AT g14g2000cwa DOT googlegroups DOT com> <200601180522 DOT k0I5MCVR031756 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <1137562915 DOT 964676 DOT 222680 AT f14g2000cwb DOT googlegroups DOT com> <0g31a3-vdi2 DOT ln1 AT news DOT infowest DOT com> <200601181556 DOT k0IFusZL016530 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <23f2a3-k8s2 DOT ln1 AT news DOT infowest DOT com> <200601181902 DOT k0IJ20Rj021390 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.237.150.142 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1137631025 5467 127.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2006 00:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:37:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: HTTP/1.1 spcss01. (IBM-PROXY-WTE-US) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.237.150.142; posting-account=KHGrvw0AAAAB7y2Tr7w_-Ld-vCb6kcTM To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > > I'm curious. Will v2.04 use the standard GNU C library or is that out of > > the question? > > That's out of the question. But was not the Gnu C library designed to be portable to different OSes? I remember I read that it once supported several OSes, not only Linux and Hurd. The developers even encouraged other programmers to develop new ports of glibc; they said it would not be too hard. What has become of this idea? Udo