Re: [MiNT] System call bindings

[Olivier Landemarre <olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr>]

Philipp Donzé wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here are some remarks from me when going through "osbind.h" and 
> "mintbind.h":
>
> - Why is DOSTIME defined to contain "short" elements instead of 
> "unsigned short"? I didn't find any documentation defining it as 
> "signed" types!
>
> - I found different implementations of DTA structure. "TOS.HYP", Atari 
> compendium, "Profibuch" use the same types and names. Only mintlib 
> uses a different approach by changing names and prefixes of the 
> structure. I know, these bindings are old and obolete, but what's the 
> use of having them implemented in a completely different manner than 
> ANY document proposes? Make it difficult to port/compile old software 
> with mintlib? ;-)
>
> - Fsetdta() is known to return nothing. In osbind.h it returns a 
> "long". I have no idea what it could return...
>
> - Dcreate(), Fattrib() should return a "long" instead of a "short" 
> because a GEMDOS error will be returned if necessary.

All DTA description I have see in libs are wrong (I not look in recent 
mintlib so perhaps correct), the name part, have alway's describe as 
char name[14] that's of course not work with long file name! I have 
correct this by simply
char name[255]

Olivier

> Philipp