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nspr-4.38.2

Netscape Portable Runtime

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Description

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking. A good portion of the library's purpose, and perhaps the primary purpose in the Gromit environment, is to provide the underpinnings of the Java VM, more or less mapping the sys layer that Sun defines for the porting of the Java VM to various platforms. NSPR does go beyond that requirement in some areas and since it is also the platform independent layer for most of the servers produced by Netscape.

Package information

Ports path
devel/nspr
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed

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