RE: Re[2]: [cc65] Graphics library

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From: Mike McCarty (jmccarty_at_ssd.usa.alcatel.com)
Date: 2001-08-15 17:52:09


On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Keates, Mark wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > however, IMHO "real" blitter functionality (as in amiga-blitter) would
> > be handy -no doubt- but unfortunatly be very inefficient considering
> > we are aiming for a portable library approach.
> 
> <2 cents mode>
> Is 'library' the wrong word here? Shouldn't this be 'interface'?
> This allows portability but it doesn't imply that the implementation 
> has to be the same for the different platforms. Therefore I'd go for 
> the approach where Assembler routines do the low level work with a 
> 'common' API interface through 'C' calls.

[snip]

IMO, "library" implies just that, that many things are collected into
one place, nothing about how it is implemented.

Do you think that "fgets()" has the same implementation on Sun/Solaris
(which I use at work) and on the 6502?

Mike
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