From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Musl-extra: C general-purpose and utility library
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:49:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907134906.GP27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5049F8C9.9070801@purdue.edu>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:38:17AM -0400, Gregor Richards wrote:
> I'm inclined to point out that there's another side to this coin:
> Although we all like to fault gnulib for having a bunch of
> unportable and unwise garbage, the vast majority of gnulib is
> portable implementations of functions that the libcs frequently get
> wrong. As usual, GNU is the worst user of gnulib, so we get a
> contorted view.
>
> Much of musl could be extracted for similar purpose, but under a
> less painful license and with less bloat from supporting systems so
> ancient they're irrelevant and won't work anyway.
This is a very interesting idea. Very different from what philomath
proposed, of course.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 11:04 philomath
2012-09-07 13:31 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-07 13:38 ` Gregor Richards
2012-09-07 13:49 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-09-19 8:38 ` Arvid E. Picciani
2012-09-19 8:54 ` Luca Barbato
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