Re: Experimental musl Port for FreeBSD

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Subject: Re: Experimental musl Port for FreeBSD
To: Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]>
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    <p>For me, having another libc implementation would make it easier
      to perform A/B testing when debugging LLVM components (such as
      compiler-rt, LLDB, and other tools) on FreeBSD. I have also seen
      people test libm precision across multiple platforms with
      different libc implementations. In this case, having another libc
      implementation can help determine whether an issue is specific to
      FreeBSD or not.<br>
      <br>
      Additionally, some users may want to build their own userspace
      with a different libc. Since the libc interface is relatively
      stable, I think it is worthwhile to spend some time porting
      another libc implementation to FreeBSD. If this project gains
      enough interest, I am willing to rewrite the AI-generated patch
      myself and work toward getting it merged upstream.<br>
      <br>
      Regarding the musl libc AI policy, my understanding is that they
      do not accept AI-generated patches. I also do not feel comfortable
      submitting AI-generated patches to a project that I am not
      familiar with, so I will not do that.<br>
      <br>
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    <p>Best</p>
    <p>ShengYi Hung.</p>
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    <div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">On 7/26/26 04:43, Pedro Giffuni wrote:=
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            <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">Kudos!</div>
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            <div>On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 8:31=E2=80=AFPM ShengYi Hung
              <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href=3D"mailto:aokblast@=
freebsd.org">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a> wrote:</div>
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            <div>&gt; Hi all FreeBSD hackers,</div>
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            <div>&gt; Since Claude reset my token quota last week and I
              couldn't use all of it, I decided</div>
            <div>&gt; to spend some time on an interesting side project:
              porting musl to FreeBSD.</div>
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          FWIW, I was proposing that as a GSoC some years ago. It would
          not ever replace</div>
        <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">our native libc but there =
are
          always people wanting to run experiments like creating</div>
        <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">distributions like Chimera=

          BSD or Alpine BSD. Pretty much the reason there is/was</div>
        <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">a FreeBSD glibc port.</div=
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        <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">I wonder if musl libc has
          some policy regarding AI contibutions :).</div>
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        <div dir=3D"ltr" data-setdir=3D"false">Pedro.</div>
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