musl - and menchmarking libc

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> FYI: I just got pointed to musl - a smallish libc:
>> http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
>>
>> It links to a comparison of libc versions and also to a benchmark:
>> http://www.etalabs.net/libc-bench.html
>>
>> I didn't investigate further whether this is usefull but found it
>> interesting enough to share,
>
> I'm just as interested in the bug descriptions at
> <http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html> under "Conformant printf",
> "UTF-8 multibyte", "Attention to corner cases".  I don't know what bugs
> are being described, but if they don't have open bugs in Bugzilla I'd like
> to see such bugs filed (or reopened, if previously wrongly closed).

uClibc has some documentation/references to examples of glibc ignoring
some standards related cases.  i think some bugs were filed (and then
closed), but some might have just been on the mailing list.
-mike