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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/