Re: [xml] OS/400 implementation (Was: Posting a patch to this list)

["Patrick Monnerat" <Patrick Monnerat datasphere ch>]

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> > I did create an account and I see this e-mail has been accepted by the

> > list server, but it has never been sent back nor appears in the 
> > archives.

> That usually means it is awaiting moderation by a human moderator with
> limited resources. Large attachments should never be sent to mailing
> lists intended for discussions, in this case a better place would be to
> attach it to a bug in Bugzilla,
>
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2

Thanks for the info and link, Bjoern.

Here is the bug report for the OS/400 support patch.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712670


There are very few updates to the existing code:
- Some header+doc file lines have been split to < 100 chararacters.
- Some configuration dependent casts have been introduced to support
passing const arguments to system functions declaring the corresponding
formal parameter as non const.
- Support for va_list declared as an array (cannot be referenced
explicitly).
- Use of fileno(stdin)/fileno(stdout) instead of 0/1 because OS/400
stdin/stdout do not have a file descriptor, while file descriptors 0 and
1 can be a regularly opened file.
- Some conditional tests added for the OS/400 compilation environment.

The rest is OS/400-specific (and stored under os400 subdirectory):
- dlopen() emulation.
- iconv_open() encoding names mapping. Plus a program to rebuild the
mapping tables.
- EBCDIC wrappers to called system/library functions.
- UTF-8 support functions for OS/400 programs calling libxml2.
- Compilation scripts (no autotools on native OS/400).
- ILE/RPG language binding: mainly a translate of C header files.

Comments and feedbacks are welcome !

Regards,
Patrick