Messages in this thread | | | From | (H.J. Lu) | Subject | Re: history of libc | Date | Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:52:19 -0800 (PST) |
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> AFAIK, > libc4 and 5 were derived from GNU libc 1 (1.0.xx ... ?), but HJL put a lot
glibc 0.x is more accurate.
> of work into it and there were a lot of differences to the original libc. > One can say that he greatly improved the libc with lots of features and > enhancements to take profit from the kernel's features. However, sometimes > the development was done a little bit too fast and some things were
It was a quick dirty job. We needed something working fast then.
> supported in a non-portable or non-standard way. That's were some of the > libc5->libc6(=GNU libc 2) migration problems come from. Some problems, of > course, are because the glibc developers made decisions different from HJL > ... (without any standard or portability issues). > AFAIK, HJL now works on glibc2, knfsd, binutils and egcs and probably on a > lot of other things, so he's still behind almost any program ... >
I am doing what I can and what I find interesting to me.
-- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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