Support for smaller glibc

H . J . Lu hjl@valinux.com
Tue Nov 28 22:56:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:42:30PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> > Does newlib support network? Are other libcs binary compatible with
> > glibc?
> 
> If you strip out something it cannot be binary compatible.  And, yes

By "binary compatible", I mean I can compile against normal glibc as
long as I don't use those stripped functions.

> there is some network support.  Don't know about the status.  There is
> also this diet libc.
> 

I don't think those libcs support RPC, DNS, NSS, ... Also they don't
support shared library.

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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)


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