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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:36:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: Suggestion: Portability section for libc docs
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Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:

> Although DJGPP is of course the best DOS development environment in the
> known universe :), there is one feature I miss from Turbo C. There, the
> documentation for each function included a "Portability" section, indicating
> how possible it would be to use the function on other systems. I'd like to
> suggest something similar be added to DJGPP. Each function could say whether
> it is ANSI, POSIX, available on Unix or other DOS compilers, unique to
> DJGPP, etc.
> Before everyone gets upset, I am willing to work on this myself. However, I
> don't have the ANSI or POSIX standards and don't have much experience with
> other DOS compilers, other than a very old version of Turbo C. Perhaps
> someone can tell me where I can get (by e-mail or FTP only, please)
> summaries or lists of functions defined by the standards (or even the
> standards themselves, though I gather they cost lots of money :( ).
> 
> I think this would be a significant aid to people trying to write portable
> programs with DJGPP.

Well, at first libc is organized in separated dirs for ANSI/POSIX/DOS, that
could help you. Another interesting thing is to have the libc.info file from
Linux in your hard-disk to check if the function exists in Linux (I have it).
And you can use as last resort the information from the TurboC help.

That's a good idea, I look the Linux help all the time to check it ;-)

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