In message <F0B628F30F48064289D8CCC1EE21B7A80C4869 at 
mvebe001.americas.nokia.com> you wrote:
>
> What are the experiences and tradeoffs of using newlib vs. glibc?  I'm 
> targetting 16M board (maybe some 8M), no swap space, and I'm concerned that 
> adding glibc will suck much of this up.  At the same time we'd also like to 
> be able to use off-the-shelf c
> omponents like dhcpd or telnetd, and are not sure if newlib would give us too 
> many headaches there.

newlib is probably not sufficient for any practical purposes.

OTOH 16 MB of RAM are sufficient to even run GCC on  the  target,  so
woth  a  bit of careful tuning a LOT can be done using plain glibc. I
recommend to start with glibc; if you;re running out of space try  to
optimize it, and only when this fails start looking for alternatives.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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