dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (11/09/86)
>with the new my.lib using Lattice 3.03, however I would like to report >that the sizes of the executables I got were consistently larger. I know >about the -s and -v flags for LC2, and I even snapped all the intermediate >files to Ram: like a good boy would have done. So the difference must be >that Matt is using v1.2 and/or a slightly later version of Lattice C than >I am using. For general information, here is what I have so far: > >my.lib (compiled w/lc3.03 and is missing something(s)) 11670 >my.lib (from .uu) Ref below to this is "a" 12032 >my.lib (new .uu) Ref below to this is "b" 12676 The answer is simple... I'm using Blink instead of Alink. If you wanted the code even smaller, you could strip the files (but strip doesn't work all the time so I've stopped using it). >a bit.) Of course, I still don't have btoa.c, and I have no idea what the >code for checkbreak and resetbreak look like, but shucks; - people in hell >want ice water. Checking for ^C-^F does not require magic.... they are simply signals (I think the #define is in DOS.H or DOSEXTENS.H). To check for them, you simply get the mask with SetSignal(0,0) and check the ^C mask, and to reset them, you do a similar call with SetSignal(something,something), (I forgot exactly what), which simply resets the signal. The next time you hit ^C, the signal will be set again, etc... The new-version of MY.LIB also has some invisible enhancements. Specifically, it handles buffering data when your reading it backwards (assuming you have a big enough buffer). That is, if you read a small segment, Seek backwards a bundle, then read again. Before it would always anchor it's buffer at the seek position and thus have to reload everytime you did a reverse seek. One minor note with Asyncronous I/O: When Asyncronous I/O is on, you will never hear about write errors for that particular xstdio file pointer. I'll stick it in sometime. Also, remember that xputc() doesn't work. I hope to post the library yet again (since it's so small) with ALL these minor bugs fixed. Again, anyone wishing the latest source can mail me. ARPANET: For those people on the ArpaNet, you can get my SHELL and MY.LIB via anonymous ftp to ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU and cd to pub/amiga. The fully fixed MY.LIB will be placed on vax By Monday November 10 (i.e. I will make the fixes and get it on sometime Sunday). -Matt