[BusyBox] supported targets

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Jan 25, 2001 at 04:08:45PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > libcs: libc5, glibc, uClibc (what about newLib or diet libc?)
> 
> I have heard rumors of diet libc working.  I have never sucessfully
> gotten newlib to run, so I can't speak for it.

I downloaded the latest diet libc and newlib this morning and will look over
them this weekend.  I looked at both a few months ago before deciding to go
with uClibc.

Initial impressions:
 
newlib seems to have greater hardware support and libm, but a lot
of the libc routines have greater object sizes than corresponding uClibc ones. 

diet libc seems less standards-compliant that uClibc -- missing things in
headers, etc.  Some of the functions are smaller than uClibc's, but several of
those are buggy.  It is moving towards multithread capability though.

I plan to periodically compare code size with that of uClibc as an indicator of
what might need reworking.

Manuel