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diff --git a/www/code.html b/www/code.html index ac577f66..0b8ba92b 100644 --- a/www/code.html +++ b/www/code.html @@ -466,12 +466,33 @@ modify Config.in, then you'll need python installed to rebuild it.)</p> configuration, but only the currently enabled ones are entered into help_data[] in toys/help.c.</p> +<a name="lib"> <h2>Directory lib/</h2> +<p>TODO: document lots more here.</p> + <p>lib: llist, getmountlist(), error_msg/error_exit, xmalloc(), strlcpy(), xexec(), xopen()/xread(), xgetcwd(), xabspath(), find_in_path(), itoa().</p> +<h3>lib/portability.h</h3> + +<p>This file is automatically included from the top of toys.h, and smooths +over differences between platforms (hardware targets, compilers, C libraries, +operating systems, etc).</p> + +<p>This file provides SWAP macros (SWAP_BE16(x) and SWAP_LE32(x) and so on).</p> + +<p>A macro like SWAP_LE32(x) means "The value in x is stored as a little +endian 32 bit value, so perform the translation to/from whatever the native +32-bit format is". You do the swap once on the way in, and once on the way +out. If your target is already little endian, the macro is a NOP.</p> + +<p>The SWAP macros come in BE and LE each with 16, 32, and 64 bit versions. +In each case, the name of the macro refers to the _external_ representation, +and converts to/from whatever your native representation happens to be (which +can vary depending on what you're currently compiling for).</p> + <a name="lib_args"><h3>lib/args.c</h3> <p>Toybox's main.c automatically parses command line options before calling the |