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What does your platform need to run Oils?
These are some notes that supplement INSTALL.
For matching extended globs like @(*.cc|*.h)
, Oils relies on GNU libc
support.
TODO: when using other libc, using this syntax should be an error.
The signal handler assumes that int and pointer assignments are atomic. This is a common and widespread assumption.
Our C++ code has DTRACE_PROBE()
macros, which means we can use tools like
bpftrace
on Linux to make low-overhead queries of runtime behavior.
The probe names and locations aren't stable across releases.
Different Unix implementations often extend:
Strings in Oils are byte strings, which are often UTF-8 encoded.
We use libc
functions that may depend on the global locale setting, like
glob()
. We currently assume your libc is configured to use UTF-8.
See the Unicode doc for details on Unicode-aware operations.