Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 14:22:32 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: "Orlando A. Andico" <orly AT psylocke DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Ian D Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Where functions belong...
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Ian D Romanick wrote:

> I have a suggestion for the next release of DJGPP.  I think there's
> quite a few functions that should be moved out of libc.a.  These
> functions include all of the DPMI stubs and the dosmemget() types.  The
> reason for this is that many people will probably want to use these
> functions in DXEs, but you can't link libc.a into a DXE.  Or am I just
> missing something?

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.

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                                                   Orlando A. Andico
                                       oandico AT balrog DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
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