NEWS.POS

Some features already there:
* various startup codes for baserelative and resident code
* compared to the p.OS MainCode.c, you have a correct argv[0] here.
* auto-open library feature (even before commercial compilers ?)
* some ANSI function are already working :)
* nice bugs (who knows in a beta version ?)

Test this in real condition as much as you can.
(Remember to take care, crashes are always possible in a beta)
I haven't many time until June, so any help is welcome.

Now for the progress report:
* All startups should be ok now. After many many crashes I understand that it
  was critical to save a5, so I do that now :) (really a f*cking bug!)
  (very probably p.OS use a5 as a frame pointer)
  You should not encounter crashes caused by libnix-pos (but take care!)

* Library and device startup code are not ready yet. Anyway you should play
  with the examples given with p.OS.

* Standard library:
  Strange outputs with printf, when using fp numbers (dont forget to link
  with -lm if you want to try this). 
  Depending on the format precision (%.2f seems ok), garbage characters will
  appear in the floating part: like "2.3-/:5"
  Where do these strange characters come from ?
  This bug occurs only when not using -m68881.
  It seems to be independant from the types (float/double), and from the output
  format (f,g).
  May come from nix/stdio/vfprintf.c, nix/math/*.c, math/trans/*.c
  Use -m68881 if you want correct output.

  not available for p.OS: (as there was some work there ;)
   nix/locale/setlocale.c
   nix/time/strftime.c
   nix/extra/dirent.c
   nix/extra/fstat.c
   nix_main/__nocommandline.c (higher priorities than old "main(char *)" )
   misc/detach.c
   misc/swapstack.c
   stubs/__cpucheck.c still use AmigaOS ExecBase (anyone has a clue for p.OS?)
   libstack.a is a dummy library yet, don't use

 (If 10 persons fix one source each, all is done :)

 I think that's enough... Probably there is much more things to fix, because
 I'm sure that exciting new bugs have been introduced.

 27-Apr-97   lecorfec@univ-mlv.fr