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From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Which C library to start hacking?
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Date: 24 Sep 92 05:34:46 GMT
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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.

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