The Modula-3 Core Library

Required Interfaces

• float implements the required interfaces for REAL, LONGREAL, and EXTENDED numbers, as well as supporting functions.
• text implements the required TEXT interface.
• thread implements the required Thread interface.
• word implements the required Word interface.

Useful Interfaces

A few mature and commonly used interfaces also belong to m3core.

• time implements the Date, Time, and Tick interface, serving all time related functions.
• weakref provides weaker references which do not prevent objects from being garbage collected, and hooks to have cleanup procedures to be called before an object will be collected.
• fingerprint computes a signature for a string and is used to fingerprint the type declarations to verify their structural equivalence.
• runtime implements the garbage collector, and other runtime support functions including the runtime type information.

Low level and platform dependent support functions

• unix interfaces to all the POSIX system calls, accounting for platforms differences.
• win32 interfaces to all the Win32 system calls.
• C defines the correspondance between C basic types and Modula-3 types, and interfaces to low level C functions (string, signal handling, setjmp...). Module M3toC offers conversions between char * and TEXT.
• Csupport provides support functions in C, mostly a more consistent (across all platforms) dtoa, and bit vectors for implementing SETs.
• main contains the empty Main interface which must be exported by any program main module.
• convert is now replaced by the newer Lex/Fmt modules for reading/writing numbers.

• COPYRIGHT (5096 bytes)
• m3makefile (1275 bytes)

• Subdirectory 'C' (199 files, 388514 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'Csupport' (147 files, 297894 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'convert' (7 files, 30028 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'fingerprint' (11 files, 101324 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'float' (92 files, 248661 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'main' (4 files, 5635 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'runtime' (345 files, 1246503 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'text' (13 files, 48568 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'thread' (23 files, 112765 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'time' (31 files, 67776 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'unix' (600 files, 2549748 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'weakref' (5 files, 14814 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'win32' (25 files, 650166 bytes)
• Subdirectory 'word' (5 files, 10301 bytes)