On 01/08/14 04:08, Stefan Kristiansson wrote:
> And the most exciting news about that is of course that it has support
> for OpenRISC.
> Read the release note and get your own copy at
> http://www.musl-libc.org/download.html

Stefan,

Very interesting. How does musl stand compared to eglibc? I know there
has been a steady migration from uClibc to eglibc for the reasons you
highlight below.


Jeremy

> 
> For those who don't know what musl is, it's a small lightweight libc,
> with the intention
> of being as standard compliant as possible.
> It's a serious contender to uClibc, and has the following benefits over it:
> - Easy (and fast) to build. No other dependencies than a compiler for
> the target.
> - Well maintained. uClibc is getting a lot of heat for not have done a
> release in ages.
> - Well written and structured code.
> And then some additional benefits that are OpenRISC specific.
> - Has upstream OpenRISC support. (yes, this is our first "official" libc).
> - Use the new atomic instructions (instead of the atomic syscall).
> - Support for posix threads (we don't have nptl support in uClibc).
> 
> I did a post to the musl mailing list how to setup a toolchain and
> compile musl for or1k,
> I'm not going to repeat that here, but just link to it:
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/07/19/5
> 
> Stefan
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