Major ISO C90 features not supported by microlib are:

Wide character and multibyte support

All functions dealing with wide characters or multibyte strings are not supported by microlib. A link error is generated if these are used. For example, mbtowc(), wctomb(), mbstowcs() and wcstombs(). All functions defined in Normative Addendum 1 are not supported by microlib.

Operating system interaction

Almost all functions that interact with an operating system are not supported by microlib. For example, abort(), exit(), atexit(), assert(), time(), system() and getenv(). An exception is clock(). A minimal implementation of clock() has been provided, which returns only –1, not the elapsed time. You may reimplement clock() (and _clock_init(), which it needs), if required.

File I/O

By default, all the stdio functions that interact with a file pointer return an error if called. The only exceptions to this are the three standard streams stdin, stdout and stderr.

You can change this behavior using __asm(".global __use_full_stdio\n\t"). Use of this assembler directive provides a microlib version of stdio that supports ANSI C, with only the following exceptions:

• The error and EOF indicators are not supported, so feof() and ferror() return 0.
• All streams are unbuffered, so setvbuf() and setbuf() fail.

Configurable locale

The default C locale is the only one available.

Signals

The functions signal() and raise() are provided but microlib does not generate signals. The only exception to this is if the program explicitly calls raise().

Floating-point support

Floating-point support diverges from IEEE 754 in the following ways, but uses the same data formats and matches IEEE 754 in operations involving only normalized numbers:

• Operations involving NaNs, infinities or input denormals produce indeterminate results. Operations that produce a result that is nonzero but very small in value, return zero.
• IEEE exceptions cannot be flagged by microlib, and there is no fp_status() register in microlib.
• The sign of zero is not treated as significant by microlib, and zeroes that are output from microlib floating-point arithmetic have an unknown sign bit.
• Only the default rounding mode is supported.

Position independent and thread safe code

Microlib has no reentrant variant. Microlib does not provide mutex locks to guard against code that is not thread safe. Use of microlib is not compatible with position independent compilation modes.

Although ROPI code can be linked with microlib, the resulting binary is not ROPI-compliant overall.

Command-line arguments

In main, argc and argv parameters are undefined and cannot be used to access command-line arguments.