Primary goals of uClibc

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon May 15 02:07:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 14 May 2006 16:29, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:24:39PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Are size or glibc'ism the primary goals of uClibc?
> > >
> > > If size, then what about 'struct stat'?
> >
> > Using a format other than the kernel-native one will just increase
> > code size. The kernel-native one is the glibc one...
> 
> what are you talking about ?  the kernel native idea of struct stat is 
> different depending on the architecture and even the version of the kernel

No, this is only old legacy versions of the stat struct. The one used
by the modern syscall number is the glibc one and it is the same on
all archs afaik.

Rich




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