in message <3ED6298C.3070901 at adtran.com> Ron Flory wrote: > 4. I know the question of embedded libc comes up often. For > the most part, we basically need the 'strxxx' and 'memxxx' > functions, but 'sprintf' is quite a different critter. Since > we are running an 860, we won't have FP support (and we don't > want to deal with emulation). Do most folks use a hand-patched > 'sprintf' source file, manually removing the floating-point ops? > I've looked into this a few years ago (the gcc sprintf source > file is a horror). Has the 'ulibc' that i've heard about been > used with success by anybody on this list for embedded non-linux > projects?
Ron, We're happily using newlib's sprintf on the mpc850, in a piece of seriously embedded non-linux equipment. According to my rough notes, ?Clibc is LGPL, so static linking may not be a good idea. Newlib's BSD-like terms seemed more appealing to me. http://sources.redhat.com/newlib Bill Gatliff wrote an article on it, in the December 2001 issue of Embedded Systems Programming. There's apparently also dietlibc and sglibc, but I haven't investigated either. Regards, Erik ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
