static library is compiled with no optimization and full debugging
information, and installed as `-lc_g'.
+`--enable-bounded'
+`--disable-bounded'
+ Enable or disable building of the C library with support for bounded
+ pointers. To do this one need the enhanced version of the GNU CC
+ with can generate code for bounded pointers. This version of the
+ C library is necessary to run code which is also compiled using the
+ enhanced gcc for debugging purposes.
+
+There are two more options:
+
+`--with-gmp'
+`--with-gettext'
+ These options are not of much use for the normal installer of the
+ GNU libc. Only maintainers need this to get automatic updates of
+ the files from these packages in the GNU C library source tree.
+
+
The simplest way to run `configure' is to do it in the directory
that contains the library sources. This prepares to build the library
in that very directory.
iX86-ANYTHING-gnu
iX86-ANYTHING-linux
m68k-ANYTHING-linux
+ mips-ANYTHING-linux
+ sparc-ANYTHING-linux
+ powerpc-ANYTHING-linux
Former versions of this library used to support the following
configurations but the current status is unknown:
sparc-sun-solaris2.N
sparc-sun-sunos4.N
- Each case of `iX86' can be `i386', `i486', `i586', or `i686'.. All
+ Each case of `iX86' can be `i386', `i486', `i586', or `i686'. All
of those configurations produce a library that can run on any of these
processors. The library will be optimized for the specified processor,
but will not use instructions not available on all of them.
subdirectories (and subdirectory trees) for various Unix variants.
The functions which are system calls in most Unix systems are
-implemented in assembly code in files in `sysdeps/unix'. These files
-are named with a suffix of `.S'; for example, `__open.S'. Files ending
-in `.S' are run through the C preprocessor before being fed to the
-assembler.
+automatically generated from the `syscalls.list' files for the appropriate
+archirecture. The format of the syscalls.list files is quite easy: only
+a few informations are necessary line the system call name, the number of
+arguments and such. The files are run through the C preprocessor.
These files all use a set of macros that should be defined in
`sysdep.h'. The `sysdep.h' file in `sysdeps/unix' partially defines