identifier namespace by renaming non standard functions and variables
such that they have a leading underscore. The library will use those
names internally. Weak aliases are used to provide the original names
to the API.
This is only the first part of this change. It is most of the functions
which are implemented in C for all NetBSD ports. Subsequent changes are
to add the same support to the remaining C files, to assembly files, and
to the automagically generated assembly source used for system calls.
When all of the above is done, ports with weak alias support should add
a definition for __weak_alias to <sys/cdefs.h>.
what was adopted in tzcode95c to solve the problem of the first char
detzcode() extracts requiring sign extention (this is needed for
machines with 64 bit longs).
Our implementation is a bit more efficent, but requires a new macro,
SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR(), and a conditional to set it appropriately).
One minor enhancement for machines without ANSI compilers that have 32
bit longs would be to define SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR() to be the identity
macro.
mycroft