Yaaarrgghh - help me, please!

[Michael Still]

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Robert Spanton wrote:

> I'm trying to port the C++ libraries to my own os, yet there appears to be
> one barrier. This appears to be the file called "libc.a". I have looked
> around for a while to try and find out what this file actually contains and
> how g++ uses it.

libc.a is the statically linkable version of your c library. This library
implements all the standard things you get for free with c and c++ -- for
instance printf, fopen, et cetera.

> Does anyone out there know (of a list - as there are probably loads) what
> functions I need to put into my own libc.a file?

Implementing this is a _big_ job. Have a hunt on the gnu.org website for
the glibc manual -- last time I checked it was something like 600 pages.

Cheers,
Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com)     UMT+10hrs