Re: dietlibc

[Chris Larson <kergoth@handhelds.org>]

* Joerg Sommer (joerg@alea.gnuu.de) wrote:
> begin  Josef Spillner <josef@ggzgamingzone.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 23:42, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> >> because the space on Z is very limited, it should be a good idea to use
> >> dietlibc. But the description says, it is not possible to link dynamical
> >> to it. Does anyone know why?
> >
> > It's been some time that I've been to a dietlibc talk.
> > AFAIK the reason was that dynamic linking information would sum up to more 
> > bytes than linking in the lib statically, thus there's no need to implement 
> > it.
> 
> Yesterday, I compiled wwwoffle with dietlibc and is was bigger then
> wwwoffle for glibc + glibc. So it doesn't make sense to use dietlibc
> while it doesn't support dynamic linking. Or did I something wrong? In
> the FAQ, I saw it is implemented for i386. Maybe arm will follow. 

uclibc would be far more worthwhile, imho.
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