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--Josh

At 0:49 on 03/31/2002 EST, Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I did some browsing of the code for potential problems in compiling
> for embedded platforms and/or general porting and here are some of the
> things I found.
> 
> 1- assert.h and use of assert()
>      assert is easy enough to implement we need to do this and not depend
>      on its existence on the target because its not guaranteed.
> 2- errno.h same thing. Any use of errno is typically a system call, so it 
> should
>      be wrapped in a platform generic way. On Win32 and WinCE we use
>      GetLastError(), on UNIX and many others we can use errno.
> 3- Use of stat and statbuf.  embed.c needs to be redone without it, period.
>      We should go ahead and call the PIO routines instead, and add to PIO 
> as needed.
>      We can implement a generic stat routine.
> 4- Configure.pl needs to prompt for targetting another environment and
>      have some specific hints file for each targettable environment.
>      For WinCE stuff it might be worth querying ENV{} for stuff like CC, 
> TARGETCPU,
>      PLATFORM, OSVERSION.
> 5- Other misc includes that should be wrapped in ifdefs are:
>      sys/types.h, sys/stat.h, fcntl.h (btw parrot.h includes fcntl.h twice, 
> once
>      inside an ifdef and then by default).
> 6- Need to check for definition of size_t and generate one if needed.
> 
> Thats enough for now; baby steps. :)
> 
> -Melvin
> 


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