Stuff dragged in by crt1 (was Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1)

Philip Blundell pb@labs.futuretv.com
Tue Jan 11 09:27:00 GMT 2000


>That's an interesting idea, mainly because it would be so simple, and
>I wouldn't be worried about the performance implications.
>
>However, I would doubt that all the embedded systems (which would
>profit most from such a change) have weak symbols available.

Anybody using ELF has weak symbols available, and I think GNU binutils 
provides them as an extension on COFF systems as well.  I would be surprised 
if anybody who doesn't fall into either of these categories was to start using 
GNU libc on an embedded system at this stage.

The `embedded' systems being discussed at the moment are mostly of the 
industrial PC kind.  I.e, they run standard Linux binaries and tools.

p.




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