Re: dietlibc
Chris Larson <[email protected]>
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* Joerg Sommer ([email protected]) wrote: > begin Josef Spillner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 23:42, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> because the space on Z is very limited, it should be a good idea to use > >> dietlibc. But the description says, it is not possible to link dynamical > >> to it. Does anyone know why? > > > > It's been some time that I've been to a dietlibc talk. > > AFAIK the reason was that dynamic linking information would sum up to more > > bytes than linking in the lib statically, thus there's no need to implement > > it. > > Yesterday, I compiled wwwoffle with dietlibc and is was bigger then > wwwoffle for glibc + glibc. So it doesn't make sense to use dietlibc > while it doesn't support dynamic linking. Or did I something wrong? In > the FAQ, I saw it is implemented for i386. Maybe arm will follow. uclibc would be far more worthwhile, imho. -- Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org Embedded Linux Developer - clarson at ti dot com OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/