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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 <math.h>, <complex.h>, and
<tgmath.h>) that are defined identically for all three floating point types,
and Curses functions (in <curses.h>) 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/<primary header name without.h>/<identifier>.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
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Start with K&R. Indents are tabs. Tabs are 8 spaces.