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diff --git a/www/code.html b/www/code.html index c133611c..c0566b4c 100644 --- a/www/code.html +++ b/www/code.html @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ to the environment will take precedence.</p> I.E. "what to build", and "configure" describes the build and installation environment, I.E. "how to build it".)</p> +<p>By default "make install" puts files in /usr/toybox. Adding this to the +$PATH is up to you. The environment variable $PREFIX can change the +install location, ala "PREFIX=/usr/local/bin make install".</p> + +<p>If you need an unstripped (debug) version of any of these binaries, +look in generated/unstripped.</p> + <p><h1><a name="running"><a href="#running">Running a command</a></h1></p> <h2>main</h2> @@ -444,10 +451,15 @@ as specified by the options field off this command's toy_list entry. See the get_optargs() description in lib/args.c for details.</p> </li> -<li><b>char toybuf[4096]</b> - a common scratch space buffer so -commands don't need to allocate their own. Any command is free to use this, -and it should never be directly referenced by functions in lib/ (although -commands are free to pass toybuf in to a library function as an argument).</li> +<li><b>char toybuf[4096]</b> - a common scratch space buffer guaranteed +to start zeroed, so commands don't need to allocate/initialize their own. +Any command is free to use this, and it should never be directly referenced +by functions in lib/ (although commands are free to pass toybuf in to a +library function as an argument).</li> + +<li><b>char libbuf[4096]</b> - like toybuf, but for use by common code in +lib/*.c. Commands should never directly reference libbuf, and library +could should nnever directly reference toybuf.</li> </ul> <p>The following functions are defined in main.c:</p> |