Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:25:40 +0100 From: Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> To: "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@cs.uml.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc Message-ID: <20030120202540.GG30396@lukas> In-Reply-To: <87bs2bpufr.fsf@bassanio.walfield.org> References: <20030120130538.74079.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> <87bs2bpufr.fsf@bassanio.walfield.org>
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* Neal H. Walfield (neal@cs.uml.edu) [030120 19:10]: > > 3. > > Portability > > glibc:Portable to more than one Kernel and hence large > > BSD libc:Don’t attempt to be portable across kernels and hence > > smaller. > > I do not see the logic. If you are speaking about lines of code in > the distribution, I may agree, however, this does not speak to the > size of the generated binary, which seems to me to be what you are > referring to. i understood him this way: glibcs *portability* is large, since it is not only portabel over several archs but also over several kernels. bsds libc is less portable (only accross different archs) so its portability is smaller. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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