From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1290 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Draft: musl promo materials Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:16:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20120713191609.GC14463@port70.net> References: <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 1342206984 23171 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2012 19:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1291-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Jul 13 21:16:24 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 1SplLj-0000Bc-Sm for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:16:24 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 18034 invoked by uid 550); 13 Jul 2012 19:16:21 -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 18026 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2012 19:16:21 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120713181254.GA31206@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1290 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [2012-07-13 14:12:54 -0400]: > 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. i'd somehow add that both static and dynamic linking is supported properly and without bloat as musl is better at it than glibc i like musl's clean code, clean header files (no gcc specific mess) and simple build system (even for cross compilation) again something that glibc is lacking and there could be a hint that things like security, worst cases (stack usage, algorithm complexity) and conformance are taken seriously