Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:38:37 -0500
From:	dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id:	<199603280338.WAA27870@delorie.com>
To:	orly AT psylocke DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
CC:	idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.LNX.3.91.960327142009.109A-100000@psylocke.eee.upd.edu.ph> (orly@psylocke.eee.upd.edu.ph)
Subject:	Re: Where functions belong...

> I think that's a good idea too. Because isn't libc.a only supposed to 
> contain the POSIX C stuff? Unix doesn't have DPMI stubs. Actually, I have 
> no problem with the existing setup, except aesthetics, except it seems 
> that Ian now has found a good reason for separating the nonportable stuff 
> from the C library.

libc has everything users usually need to build programs.  The DPMI
stuff is REQUIRED by the C functions, so they stay.  Once of the
common FAQs in V1 was "why am I getting linking problems?" when all
they forgot was to link in the N special libraries.  So, they're all
in libc.a now.

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