[PATCH] [patchwork-test] Make glibc into a C++ library
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@sourceware.org
Thu Apr 30 02:15:23 GMT 2020
C is for old people and C++ is the future. Start by changing the
README, we can get to changing the library later.
---
README | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 31c5da0405..f2669be72f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-This directory contains the sources of the GNU C Library.
+This directory contains the sources of the GNU C++ Library.
See the file "version.h" for what release version you have.
-The GNU C Library is the standard system C library for all GNU systems,
+The GNU C++ Library is the standard system C library for all GNU systems,
and is an important part of what makes up a GNU system. It provides the
system API for all programs written in C and C-compatible languages such
as C++ and Objective C; the runtime facilities of other programming
@@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ In GNU/Linux systems, the C library works with the Linux kernel to
implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
-The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
+The GNU C++ Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu.
-When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C Library
+When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C++ Library
requires Linux kernel version 3.2 or later.
Also note that the shared version of the libgcc_s library must be
installed for the pthread library to work correctly.
-The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
+The GNU C++ Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
aarch64*-*-linux-gnu
alpha*-*-linux-gnu
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ maintainers; see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more
information.
See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, and install
-the GNU C Library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for
+the GNU C++ Library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for
the C library at https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/.
-The GNU C Library is (almost) completely documented by the Texinfo manual
+The GNU C++ Library is (almost) completely documented by the Texinfo manual
found in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated
and contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not
have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. For
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Please see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting
information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports.
This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly.
-The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
+The GNU C++ Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be
listed using range notation, e.g., 1996-2015, indicating that every year in
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