From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1289 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Draft: musl promo materials Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20120713181254.GA31206@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342203235 21189 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2012 18:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:13:55 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1290-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Jul 13 20:13:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SpkNH-0007oq-Hb for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:13:55 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23793 invoked by uid 550); 13 Jul 2012 18:13:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 23784 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2012 18:13:54 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1289 Archived-At: Hi all, Here's a quick draft (and request for input/suggestions) of points/highlights about musl to eventually be incorporated into the website and other opportunities to promote musl. With embedded-relevant ports getting integrated now, I'm thinking this sort of thing will also be useful for sending announcements to relevant mailing lists, etc. Anything big I'm missing? Rich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consistent quality and implementation behavior from tiny embedded systems to full servers. Minimal machine-specific code, meaning less chance of breakage on minority architectures and better success with "write once run everywhere" development. Realtime-quality robustness. No unnecessary dynamic allocation. No unrecoverable late failures. No lazy binding or lazy allocation. MIT license. Full math library with a focus on correctness. Exact and correctly-rounded conversion between binary floating point and decimal strings. Reentrancy, thread-safety, and async-signal safety well beyond the requirements of POSIX. Even snprintf and dprintf are fully reentrant and async-signal-safe. Highly resource-efficient POSIX threads implementation, making multi-threaded application design viable even for memory-constrained systems.