glibc design documents

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Mon Mar 25 10:14:00 GMT 2002


Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> > 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.

I think the real source of managability is that glibc consists of
multiple sublibraries. So if you were to draw UML diagrams for it,
each subdirectory would become a package. Of course, there are few
classes in the library, and each package essentially implements a
single interface, so representing this in UML might be pointless.

Regards,
Martin



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