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diff --git a/nuttx/lib/README.txt b/nuttx/lib/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e99304841..000000000 --- a/nuttx/lib/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -lib -=== - -This directory contains numerous, small functions typically associated with -what you would expect to find in a standard C library. The sub-directories -in this directory contain standard interface that can be executed by user- -mode programs. - -Normally, NuttX is built with no protection and all threads running in kerne- -mode. In that model, there is no real architectural distinction between -what is a kernel-mode program and what is a user-mode program; the system is -more like on multi-threaded program that all runs in kernel-mode. - -But if the CONFIG_NUTTX_KERNEL option is selected, NuttX will be built into -distinct user-mode and kernel-mode sections. In that case, most of the -code in the nuttx/ directory will run in kernel-mode with with exceptions -of (1) the user-mode "proxies" found in syscall/proxies, and (2) the -standard C library functions found in this directory. In this build model, -it is critical to separate the user-mode OS interfaces in this way. - -Sub-Directories -=============== - -The files in the lib/ directory are organized (mostly) according which file -in the include/ directory provides the prototype for library functions. So -we have: - - libgen - libgen.h - fixedmath - fixedmath.h - math - math.h - mqueue - pthread.h - net - Various network-related header files: netinet/ether.h, arpa/inet.h - pthread - pthread.h - queue - queue.h - sched - sched.h - semaphore - semaphore.h - stdio - stdio.h - stdlib - stdlib.h - string - string.h - time - time.h - unistd - unistd.h - -There is also a misc/ subdirectory that contains various internal functions -and interfaces from header files that are too few to warrant their own sub- -directory: - - misc - Nonstandard "glue" logic, debug.h, crc32.h, dirent.h - -Library Database -================ - -Information about functions available in the NuttX C library information is -maintained in a database. That "database" is implemented as a simple comma- -separated-value file, lib.csv. Most spreadsheets programs will accept this -format and can be used to maintain the library database. - -This library database will (eventually) be used to generate symbol library -symbol table information that can be exported to external applications. - -The format of the CSV file for each line is: - - Field 1: Function name - Field 2: The header file that contains the function prototype - Field 3: Condition for compilation - Field 4: The type of function return value. - Field 5 - N+5: The type of each of the N formal parameters of the function - -Each type field has a format as follows: - - type name: - For all simpler types - formal type | actual type: - For array types where the form of the formal (eg. int parm[2]) - differs from the type of actual passed parameter (eg. int*). This - is necessary because you cannot do simple casts to array types. - formal type | union member actual type | union member fieldname: - A similar situation exists for unions. For example, the formal - parameter type union sigval -- You cannot cast a uintptr_t to - a union sigval, but you can cast to the type of one of the union - member types when passing the actual paramter. Similarly, we - cannot cast a union sigval to a uinptr_t either. Rather, we need - to cast a specific union member fieldname to uintptr_t. - -NOTE: The tool mksymtab can be used to generate a symbol table from this CSV -file. See nuttx/tools/README.txt for further details about the use of mksymtab. |