"Difference beetween uClibc and Glibc?"

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Apr 8 19:49:22 UTC 2006


On Friday 07 April 2006 4:02 am, vipul_it413 wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am new to this mailing list.....
> Can anybody know the difference between the uClibc and Glibc?
> I want to know the technical difference and the reason why the size of the
> executable compiled with the uClibc is smaller than that of Glibc????????

The fact that the classic "hello world" program bloats to over 400k when 
statically linked against glibc should be a hint that glibc is simply 
defective.

Rob
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