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>Here are some details about the implementation
which might be interesting, although they do not affect the ISO-defined
semantics of the library. </P
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>It is possible to configure
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to have the standard C library without the kernel. You might want
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support, as determined by the CYGVAR_KERNEL_COUNTERS_CLOCK
configuration option in
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<TT
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,
<TT
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>cos()</TT
>
,
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>fabs()</TT
>
,
<TT
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>labs()</TT
>
,
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>memcmp()</TT
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,
<TT
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>memcpy()</TT
>
,
<TT
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>sin()</TT
>
,
<TT
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>
,
<TT
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>strcmp()</TT
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,
<TT
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><TT
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and
<TT
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>memset()</TT
>
are located in the infrastructure package, not in the C library
package. This is because the compiler calls these functions, and
the kernel needs to resolve them even if the C library is not configured. </P
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is invoked, heap memory will normally be coalesced. If the CYGSEM_KERNEL_MEMORY_COALESCE
configuration parameter is not set, memory will not be coalesced,
which might cause programs to fail. </P
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>Signals, as implemented by
<TT
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>, are guaranteed to work
correctly if raised using the
<TT
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function from a normal working program context. Using signals from
within an ISR or DSR context is not expected to work. Also, it is
not guaranteed that if CYGSEM_LIBC_SIGNALS_HWEXCEPTIONS
is set, that handling a signal using
<TT
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will necessarily catch that form of exception. For example, it
may be expected that a divide-by-zero error would be caught by handling
<TT
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the required hardware exception. And indeed the hardware itself
may not be capable of detecting these exceptions so it may not be
possible for the HAL implementer to do this in any case. Despite
this lack of guarantees in this respect, the signals implementation
is still ISO C compliant since ISO C does not offer any such guarantees
either. </P
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>The
<TT
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>getenv()</TT
>
function is implemented (unless the CYGPKG_LIBC_ENVIRONMENT configuration
option is turned off), but there is no shell or
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>putenv()</TT
>
function to set the environment dynamically. The environment is
set in a global variable environ, declared as:</P
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using the CYGDAT_LIBC_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT
option. If so, remember that the final entry of the array initializer
must be NULL. </P
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#include <stdlib.h> // Main header for stdlib functions
extern char **environ; // Standard environment definition
int
main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
char *str;
char *env[] = { "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin",
"HOME=/home/fred",
"TEST=1234=5678",
"home=hatstand",
NULL };
printf("Display the current PATH environment variable\n");
environ = (char **)&env;
str = getenv("PATH");
if (str==NULL) {
printf("The current PATH is unset\n");
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