lliibbrraarriieess -- Overview

A lliibbrraarryy  is an  archive file  of commonly used  functions that  have been
compiled, tested, and stored for inclusion in a program at link time.

The COHERENT  system stores its libraries in  two directories, /uussrr/lliibb and
/lliibb,  or  their  subdirectories:  The  following  libraries  are  kept  in
/uussrr/lliibb:

lliibbccuurrsseess.aa            ccuurrsseess library and tteerrmmiinnffoo functions
lliibbeeddiitt.aa              Routines to gather and edit user input
lliibbll.aa                 lleexx library
lliibbmmpp.aa                Multi-precision arithmetic library
lliibbssoocckkeett.aa            ssoocckkeettss emulation library
lliibbtteerrmm.aa              Functions to read tteerrmmccaapp data
lliibbyy.aa                 yyaacccc library
lliibb.bb                  bbcc's function library (in bbcc source)

The following libraries are kept in /lliibb:

lliibbcc.aa       General functions and system calls
lliibbmm.aa       Mathematics routines

Versions  of  the  above  libraries  that perform  hardware  floating-point
arithmetic (rather than the default software floating-point arithmetic) are
kept in sub-directories /uussrr/lliibb/nnddpp and /lliibb/nnddpp. See the Lexicon entry cccc
for details on  how hardware and software floating-point arithmetic differ,
and how you can request one variety or the other.

In  addition, COHERENT  comes  with a  library  of miscellaneous  routines,
called lliibbmmiisscc.  See the Lexicon article lliibbmmiisscc for  information on how to
prepare this library for use.

_L_e_x_i_c_o_n _A_r_t_i_c_l_e_s
The  following Lexicon  articles introduce  the library  functions included
with the COHERENT system:

    lliibbcc
    lliibbccuurrsseess
    lliibbeeddiitt
    lliibbmm
    lliibbmmiisscc
    lliibbmmpp
    lliibbssoocckkeett
    lliibbtteerrmm

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