16 Nov 2003

The original question got lost in a thread about programming brace style
and compiler linking optimization.  Re-posting the question, and
cross-posting in fd-freecom.

-jh



Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one of the biggest components of the freedos source distribution is suppl,
> but only a small part of it is used in freecom and it's not used anywhere
> else (as far as I can see, correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> out of a total of ~800 files only the following are necessary for
> freecom:
>
> ADDU.C      DFNSQUEE.C  DSTRTOKE.C   ENV_NEW.C   FFMAXBUF.C    INVOKEDO.C
> BYTE2PAR.C  DFNSTAT.C   DSTRTRIM.C   ENV_NOST.C  FFPUT.C       MCB_1ST.C
> CNTRY.C     DFNTRUEN.C  DSTRUPR.C    ENV_OVRW.C  FMEMCHR.C     MCB_IS.C
> DFN.LOC     DIR.LOC     ENVIRON.LOC  ENV_REPL.C  FMEMCMP.C     MCB_LENG.C
> DFNDELI2.C  DMEMCMPF.C  ENV_CHG.C    ENV_RLSG.C  FMEMCPY.C     MCB_NXT.C
> DFNDELIM.C  DOSALLOC.C  ENV_DEL.C    ENV_SCNT.C  FMEMORY.LOC   MCB_WALK.C
> DFNEXPAN.C  DOSFREE.C   ENV_DVAR.C   ENV_SIZE.C  FMEMOVE.C     STPCAT.C
> DFNFNAM.C   DOSSIZE.C   ENV_FIND.C   ENV_STRG.C  FNORM.C       SUPPLIO.LOC
> DFNFULLP.C  DSTRCHAR.C  ENV_FORA.C   ENV_SUB.C   FPUTMC.C      TOUPPERX.C
> DFNMERGE.C  DSTRFUPR.C  ENV_FREE.C   ENV_VAR1.C  FSTRCPY.C     _GETDCWD.C
> DFNPATH.C   DSTRLEFT.C  ENV_INSV.C   ENV_VAR2.C  FSTRDUP.C
> DFNSEARC.C  DSTRREPL.C  ENV_LEN.C    FFCOPY.C    FSTRLEN.C
> DFNSPLIT.C  DSTRSTRI.C  ENV_MTCH.C   FFCOPYB.C   INITSUPL.LOC
>
> I'd like to propose to add them to the freecom source zip (~100k zipped)
> and CVS, and removing its suppl dependency.
>
> I know Steffen likes to see suppl as an independent library, but in
> this case the balance went too far to the other side IMHO, in terms
> of convenience to build freecom (without relying on a precompiled suppl
> that is only supposed to work for tc++ 1.01 or needing to compile the big
> complete suppl library).
>
> Bart