ELIX?

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
> 
> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
> vanishing with a *poof*.

  Not /entirely/ vanished:

       http://sourceware.org/elix/

... but not updated in a looong time.

    cheers,
      DaveK