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Re: Advice on C libraries

From arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Advice on C libraries
Date 2015-10-08 06:11 +0000
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Message-ID <15-10-006@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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The Google / Android "bionic" C library may be of interest as well.

The various *BSDs all have reasonable C libraries (POSIX compliant etc.)

If you're not targeting Linux specifically, then avoiding GLIBC probably
is a good idea.

My two cents.

Arnold

In article <15-10-005@comp.compilers>, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>I'm working with some people who are building a C language toolchain
>for a new 64 bit architecture.  A large part of the work is getting
>the usual libraries to work.
>
>The obvious choice would be glibc, except that the C compiler is not
>gcc, and getting glibc to work with anything else is not for the faint
>of heart or short of time.  We're looking at musl which seems quite
>promising, small, looks well coded, MIT license.
>
>Anyone have experience with it or advice to offer?

--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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Advice on C libraries "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-10-07 22:13 -0400
  Re: Advice on C libraries arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2015-10-08 06:11 +0000
  Re: Advice on C libraries George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2015-10-09 23:51 -0400
  Re: Advice on C libraries "lpsantil@gmail.com" <lpsantil@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 15:53 -0800

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