technica.txt

CC386 is a general-purpose 32-bit C compiler. It is not an optimizing compiler but given that the co

IMPORT is a simple librarian for the old DOS library format.  The difference
between IMPORT and XLIB is that IMPORT works primarily with import definitions,
whereas XLIB works primarily with object code.  The basic
functionality is to read in the target library, if it exists, into a list
of its component object files.  Then object files are extracted, deleted,
and inserted as per commands on the command line.  Finally, the dictionary
is recalculated, and the library is written back to itself.


This is made up of the following files:

ALLOCATE.C  - memory allocation
ARGS.C      - argument parsing
DICT.C      - dictionary creation
DLL.C       - functions to read the export table from a DLL
ERROR.C     - error messages
EXT.C       - simple file extension handling
FATAL.C     - fatal error and exit
HASH.C      - hash tables for internal symbol names storage
IMPORT.C    - import declaration module, declare from a file
LIB.C       - library i/o utils
LIST.C      - list functions
MODULE.C    - object file reader
USAGE.C     - usage and banner functions
ximport.c   - main line and command line parsing

the related .h and .p files declare various things that need to be
declared, and prototypes