Building -------- First run configure to set up the standards conformance. It has help when run with -h, which will always be more up-to-date than anything that could be put in this document. Then run make. Code Organization ----------------- Every identifier is placed in its own .c file. Every single one. Every function (with two types of exceptions), every extern variable, every #define, every typedef, every struct and union definition. This facilitates generating man pages, 1 per, as well has header generation. The two exceptions are math functions (in , , and ) that are defined identically for all three floating point types, and Curses functions (in ) that include w and possible mv and mvw prefixed versions. Those use macros inside those files to define the alternate versions, and the man page and header file generation scripts treat them specially. As for paths, files are in src//.c. For example, printf() is at src/stdio/printf.c. Compiler Requirements --------------------- The compiler must define exactly one of __LP32__, __ILP32__, __ILP64__, __LLP64__, or __LP64__, describing the relative sizes of int, long, long long, and pointer types as described in this table (underscores remove for clarity): LP32 ILP32 ILP64 LLP64 LP64 char 8 8 8 8 8 short 16 16 16 16 16 int 16 32 64 32 32 long 32 32 64 32 64 long long 64 64 64 64 64 pointer 32 32 64 64 64 The aformentioned symbol is used, among other places, for the proper definition of size_t, ssize_t, and intptr_t. Coding Style ------------ Start with K&R. Indents are tabs. Tabs are 8 spaces.