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diff --git a/src/util/dyn/README b/src/util/dyn/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0c08ac5c62 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/util/dyn/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +libdyn.a -- Release 1.0 + +A C Dynamic Object is an array that takes care of resizing itself as +elements are added and deleted from it. It can be of any type for +which sizeof is defined and for which an address of a variable of that +type can be passed to a function. + +To build libdyn.a, simply type "make depend all" (if you don't have +the program makedepend, of course, leave out the "depend" part). If +your system's bcopy() cannot handle overlapping regions, you'll need +to write one that can. (Left as an excercise for the reader..) + +The library should compile and work without modification on a vast +number of systems. It only uses 5 external functions: malloc, +realloc, free, bcopy, and fprintf (to stderr). Of these, only bcopy +should need to be changed for other systems (such as MS-DOS) and it +could probably be done with a -D flag to the compiler. + +The test/demo program is built by "make all". This program produces +the library's debugging output (to stderr) as well as some of its own +output (to stdout). + +The library has been tested (with test.c) on a VAX VSII, VAXstation +3100, DECstation 3100, and IBM RT all running BSD4.3 (except for the +DECstation, which was running Ultrix V2.1). + +An earlier version of this library was posted to alt.sources. This +version contains one new function (DynInsert) and slightly cleaner +code, but no bugfixes (no bugs were found). + +Author: Barr3y Jaspan, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) and +MIT-Project Athena, bjaspan@athena.mit.edu, 1990 |