RE: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:59:48 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
>> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
>> Of Lonny Pursell
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:32 PM
>> To: MiNT mailing-list
>> Subject: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the kernal
>>
>>
>> For sometime I've wanted do some mintnet socket coding but since
>> all of the socketdev stuff is in 'C' I had real troubles.  At
>> one point I started to port some of it but a few of the calls
>> are more than I can port, so I gave up.   I've seen some
>> discussion of moving some socket calls to the kernal?  Could
>> the socket cails that are more than simple calls to /device/socket
>> also be moved to the kernal?
>>
>> This would open the doors to coders that use pascal, modula, and
>> asm and so on to make mintnet apps.  I find it ironic that someone
>> the knows asm like the back of their hand, has exactly the same
>> problem I have here.
>>
>> Keep in mind I don't know linux, what's common amoungst kernals,
>> or what it would even take to move these calls.  It's just
>> a suggestion I felt the need to express.  It might be
>> totally off the wall.  ;-)
>
>Please explain the difference in using a new system call (for which you
>would probably need new bindings) compared to using the existing calls on a
>socket handle...

I'll try, say for example I need to call resolve(), how do I do
this if I do not use "C"?  I must port the actual code for this
call to my language correct?  Or toss my language and switch to "C"?
I can link other libraries but they must be in DRI format, again
I think this is a problem as itwould  require me to recompile them
under some other compiler than what is provided with kgmd?

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