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<tt>testmain.c</tt> as a guide to installing the ficl
system and one or more virtual machines into your code. You do not need
to include <tt>testmain.c</tt> in your build.
+<p>Note: ficlLockDictionary can be left unimplemented in most multithreaded
+implementations - it's only necessary if you expect to have more than one
+thread modifying the dictionary at the same time. If you do decide to implement
+it, make sure calls to ficlLockDictionary can nest properly (see the comments
+in sysdep.h). You need to keep count of nested locks and unlocks and do
+the right thing.
<p>Feel free to stub out the double precision math functions (which are
presently implemented as inline assembly because it's so easy on many 32
bit processors) with kludge code that only goes to 32 bit precision. In