newlib and glibc compatibility

Christopher Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999


On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:52:53PM -0800, Brimhall, GeoffreyX L wrote:
>How close are newlib and glibc ? Is there any chance that at some point
>newlib will implement glibc and so be able to use it's headers ?
>
>This would help porting linux code based on glibc.

There is not much chance that Cygnus will do anything like this.

As usual, however, we will accept updates or improvements if anyone
wants to take this on as a project.

-chris



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