glibc design documents

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Mon Mar 25 07:17:00 GMT 2002


KaspervandenBerg@eu.omron.com writes:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know if there are design documents (like UML class diagrams or
> something) for glibc?

UML?  glibc is older than UML...

> I believe there had to be more than the c-files, because you have to be
> very intelligent if you can manage 16 MB code without a higher abstraction
> level. (It could be that you guys are of course :) ).

We are ;-).

> I wish to view the design documents to see where i could find the
> implementation of the dynamic linker (ld.so)

glibc is documented in the source code.  Some generic documents are
part of the manual and you might want to read the mailing list
archives for specific questions.

Andreas
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