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musl libc Reaches 1.0 Milestone

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the ilibc-ulibc-we-all-C-for-libc dept.

dalias writes

"The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight, fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are known to build successfully against musl.

Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:24PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:24PM (#19089)

    Nobody forces you to use the standard string library. Apart from the file operations and command line arguments (and those can easily be wrapped), I don't see anything that forces you to use zero-terminated strings. Indeed, with C99, you even have a portable way to implement your length-prefixed strings:

    typedef struct MyString
    {
        int length;
        char data[];
    } *pMyString;

    Of course with that definition, you get to implement all string functions yourself. But then, the string functions C provides are mostly quite basic anyway.

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  • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:50PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:50PM (#19122) Homepage

    char data[] is an incomplete type.

    • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:25PM

      by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:25PM (#19124) Homepage

      Wait, guess it isn't in C99. I'm tired.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:06AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:06AM (#19670)

        In C99, it is specifically allowed at the end of a struct. It allows to allocate extra memory after the struct and use that as members of the array. It's called flexible array member.

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