From 2ad4fab214b13af85237b9e836c525e9ce3e7fb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:27:31 +0000 Subject: Update. 1998-04-08 20:06 Ulrich Drepper * iconv/gconv_conf.c (__gconv_read_conf): Use __realpath not realpath. * iconv/gconv_db.c: Use __ protected regex functions. * iconv/gconv_simple.c: Use __mbsinit not mbsinit. * posix/getopt_init.c: Use __getpid not getpid. * posix/regex.c: Rename all global functions to start with __ and make old names weak aliases. * posix/regex.h: Adopt prototypes for this. * stdlib/canonicalize.c: Define __realpath, make canonicalize_file_name a weak alias and use __getcwd instead of getcwd. * stdlib/stdlib.h: Declare __realpath and __canonicalize_file_name. * stdlib/strtod.c: Use __btowc instead of btowc. * stdlib/strtol.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_matherr.c: Weaken definition of matherr. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/errlist.c: Make sure definitions of sys_nerr and sys_errlist are weak. * wcsmbs/btowc.c: Define function as __btowc and make btowc weak alias. * wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Use __mbsinit not mbsinit. * wcsmbs/mbsnrtowcs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcsnrtombs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcsrtombs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbsinit.c: Define function as __mbsinit and make mbsinit weak alias. * wcsmbs/wchar.h: Declare __btowc and __mbsinit. * wctype/wctype.c: Define function as __wctype and make wctype weak alias. * wctype/wctype.h: Declare __wctype. --- PROJECTS | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'PROJECTS') diff --git a/PROJECTS b/PROJECTS index b9bd305cb9..f1488d3e62 100644 --- a/PROJECTS +++ b/PROJECTS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: March 1998 +Status: April 1998 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact . @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ contact . - exp2 - each with float, double, and long double arguments. + with long double arguments. Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in ISO C 9X should be improved. Writing some of them in assembler is @@ -101,3 +101,14 @@ contact . int foo __P ((int, int, int, int)); Blargh! + +[16] The libio stream file functions should be extended in a way to use + mmap to map the file and use it as the buffer to user sees. For + read-only streams this should be rather easy and it avoids all read() + calls. + + A more sophisticated solution would use mmap also for writing. The + standards do not demand that the file on the disk is always in the + correct form so it would be possible to enlarge it always according + to the page size and install the correct length only for fclose() and + fflush() calls. -- cgit v1.2.3