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- xadmaster.library got a design which is a result of programming for
- xfdmaster.library, programming xpkmaster.library and fd2pragma tool. I got
- some problems with these and tried to fix them for xadmaster.library.
- I hope I got all :-) We will see in some years.
-
- The library has a very open interface allowing future enhancements easily.
- Nearly all funtions get their arguments through TagItem structures and
- all structures must be allocated through xadmaster.library which ensures
- the ability to expand them. The functions using Tag arrays end with A.
- Related varargs functions end without A, but are not supported on all
- compilers directly. Use fd2pragma to create link libraries for e.g.
- MaxonC++ compiler.
-
- The library is done in pure C code compiled with SAS-C. It does not use
- global variables and library bases or the ExecBase pointer from 4.W. All
- the necessary data is stored locally. All library functions use the normal
- library interface for their work (e.g. xadGetInfo does not call
- xadAllocObject internally, but with normal library call).
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- The library base pointers stored in xadMasterBase should be used from
- clients only. No other programs should access them to ensure future
- compatibility!
-
- If you need additionally include files, use fd2pragma utility. It can be
- found in Aminet under name dev/misc/fd2pragma.lha.
-
- It is able to produce stub libraries, lvo, proto and pragma files and a lot
- of other stuff.
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- The inline files in directory inline will work with GCC and VBCC.
- The pragma files will work with SAS, Maxon, Storm, Dice and Aztec compiler.
- The proto files will work with all of these compilers!
-
- Most of these files were automatically created with fd2pragma (2.139 or
- better):
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 6 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO C/pragma
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 18 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO AmigaE/
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 40 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO C/inline
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 38 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO C/proto
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 70 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO C/inline
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 23 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO ASM/lvo
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 110 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO FD COMMENT
- fd2pragma SPECIAL 111 INFILE SFD/xadmaster_lib.sfd TO C/clib COMMENT COPYRIGHT "Dirk Stöcker"
-
- For GCC you may delete the pragma directory.
- For all the other C compilers you may delete the inline directory,
- but use pragma instead. Do not rename pragma to pragmas or change
- the file names! When pragma does not exist, please create it.
-
- Always call files in proto directory instead of clib, inline or pragma
- directory! This makes usage of different compilers possible.
-
- You need not to modify any of the include files or change their names!
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-
- Dirk Stöcker <stoecker@epost.de>
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- 13th December 2001
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