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: (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.