Re: [musl] [PATCH] memmem.3: Added list of known systems where this is available

[Shiz <hi@shiz.me>]

Hi there,

> On 23 Nov Reiwa 4, at 14:16, Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> -  Android is not a real Unix system, in that you can't even program in C in
>>>> there, unless you're Google or have hacked your system.  It's not friendly
>>>> to us programmers, so we don't need to be friendly to it.  I don't want to
>>>> be cluttering the pages with information that is irrelevant to normal users.
>>> 
>>> I'm assuming bionic is being used in some of the Android free
>>> alternatives too, but then I'm not sure how usable for programming those
>>> are either. And, well musl libc is not a real Unix system you can program
>>> against either. :)
> 
> The difference is only that bionic is not in use in useful systems (AFAIK).  :)
> 
> So we have to do some decission here (and also about newlib, as reported by Brian).

I’d like to chime in here and note that, valuations of usefulness aside, it *is*
possible to develop in C against an Android device, without needing any hacks,
using the NDK[1]. As someone who has occasionally worked on big codebases written
in C and C++ for Android devices, I would argue there’s value to be had there. :-)

> Cheers,
> 
> Alex

- Shiz

[1]: https://developer.android.com/ndk