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From: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>
To: Robert Spanton <rob@xgoat.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Yaaarrgghh - help me, please!
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 13:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0205130633430.12913-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008d01c1f9d3$f915dda0$0a00000a@zarquin>

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

-- 

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

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-12 20:35 UTC|newest]

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2002-05-12  9:42 Robert Spanton
2002-05-12 13:35 ` Michael Still [this message]

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