any plans for an "official" newlib snapshot ?

[J. Johnston]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> |  patch-newlib-linux-17.gz
> 
> Latest version is 20. Adds several new goodies and fixes my unfortunate
> decision in version 17 to call an object file system.o, which of course
> replaced libc/stdlib/system.o ...
>

A patch based on version 20 has been checked into newlib.
 
> BTW, is this superseding of object files encouraged practice in newlib ?
> It would be an elegant way of using some system calls instead of awkward
> replacements in libc (e.g. rename).
>

Yes, the sys and machine directories have the ability to override the base
newlib files.

-- Jeff J.