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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!kjb From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Which C library to start hacking? Message-ID: <kjb.717312886@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au> Date: 24 Sep 92 05:34:46 GMT Sender: usenet@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Njuiz noveles nova newes) Organization: RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, CITRI, Melbourne Lines: 21 I am about to start doing a _lot_ of work on the standard C library for 386BSD. Most of the stuff that I will be doing is checking things for Standard/ANSI C conformance and POSIX 1003.1 conformance, but I will also be pulling every trick I know out of the book to make it run efficiently (this includes re-writing all the string handling routines in optimised assembler). Before I start doing this work I need to know which library to start working on. Should I begin work on the standard C library that comes with 386BSD, or should I use the GNU C library as the starting point. I have heard that the GNU C library has lots of bugs in it, so maybe this would not be a wise starting point. +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Internet: | | RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre | kjb@citri.edu.au | | CITRI Building, 723 Swanston Street | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | | Carlton Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA. | | +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | CoSysop (Bossman), PC Connection Australia: +61 3 688 0909 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+