Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/01/26/19:10:18
> I familiar with them from a solaris box (although that may not hold much
> weight). The constants from <sys/unistd.h> differ slightly from what I
> posted: _SC_PHYS_PAGES is 500 and _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES is 501. They're not on
> my local linux box... So I suppose they are only slightly more portable
> than a __dpmi_* call.
They're not available at all on SGI IRIX either. It is not the goal
of DJGPP to be 100% compatible with every Unix OS out there. We must
consider all ramifications of each change. In this case, we are
adding complexity to libc without a comparable increase in
portability. In addition, the changes masquerade as POSIX standards,
which may confuse programmers and make their programs *less* portable,
without them being aware of it. Overall, I'd say this change is not
suitable for djgpp.
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