[openbeos] Re: newos libc

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:24:24 EST (-0500)

>     At the lowest levels, you still need to plug it into the kernel.
> The higher level routines are not a problem (ie: string routines),
> however, you still require the underlying code connection to the 
> newos kernel. Maybe we can use libroot.so but it's not as 
> easy as just plugging in the source code. The generic
> 'C' and 'C++' code libraries need to be there to use 
> the kernel resources.
>     So, some of the coding is just connectivity to memory 
> management and tread routines, etc. But BeOS is also
> missing a great deal of that specification too.
>     My goal is top use the resources available to 
> make something that isn't broken from the get go.
>     libroot.so?, yeah, I'm looking at that. It's already in use.

And the underlying code is all that's missing in libroot.so. Everything 
else is quite generalized.
-Nathan

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