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ABOUT
Ciabatta - An implementation of CRT for x86-64 windows and linux platforms.
The goal is to provide a platform-independent CRT with the purpose of
explicitly defining some of platform-defined behaviours in order to simplify
the development and providing additional functionality to aid the developers in
writing cross-platform applications.
Note that Undefined Behaviour is impossible to define on a CRT level, since the
semantics of the language can only be changed at the compiler level. Sometimes
the compilers will replace CRT function calls with builtin functions, which is
meant as an optimization, e.g. replacing some forms of prinf() with puts() or
replacing strlen with an x86 rep movsb instruction. Even if ciabatta does have
a specific behaviour under given UB conditions, that behaviour is not
guaranteed.
The goals:
- Providing API for sockets, unicode processing (not just encodings), maybe
the support for common image and data file formats and other useful
non-standard functionality.
- Making it easy to port the library to a new platform, e.g. a custom OS
kernel or a different processor architecture.
- Defining implementation-defined behaviours of some of the functions and
explicitly documenting them.
- Make it reasonably fast compared to MSVCRT and GLIBC.
PLATFORM SUPPORT
OS/Kernel:
- Windows (64-bit)
- TODO: Linux
Processor Architecture
- x86-64
USAGE
Note that the library can only be used with clang
Once MSVC compiler finally decides to support C11 atomic types I'll consider
supporting MSVC, until then clang is your only option
1. Run bake.cmd
2. Make sure you've got the following in some folder:
- The inc folder
- The ciabatta.lib archive file
- The utf8.obj object file
3. Add the following flags to your compilation command:
-I <path/to/ciabatta/inc> utf8.obj -nostdlib -mfma
4. Don't forget to link to the following libraries:
-lciabatta.lib
CONTRIBUTING
Pull requests are always welcome.
LICENCE
TBD, but probably i'll make it MIT or WTFPL :kekw: