uClibc
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| uClibc | |
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| Platform | Embedded Linux |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License[1] |
| Website | http://www.uclibc.org/ |
In computing, uClibc is a small C standard library intended for embedded Linux systems. uClibc was created to support uClinux, a version of Linux not requiring a memory management unit and thus suited for microcontrollers (uCs; the "u" is a romanization of μ for "micro").[2]
The project lead is Erik Andersen. The other main contributor is Manuel Novoa III. Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, uClibc is free software.
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[edit] Features
uClibc is much smaller than the GNU C Library (glibc), the C library normally used with Linux distributions. While glibc is intended to fully support all relevant C standards across a wide range of hardware and kernel platforms, uClibc is specifically focused on embedded Linux. Features can be enabled or disabled according to space requirements.
uClibc runs on standard and MMU-less Linux systems. It supports i386, x86 64, ARM (big/little endian), AVR32, Blackfin, h8300, m68k, MIPS (big/little endian), PowerPC, SuperH (big/little endian), SPARC, and v850 processors.
[edit] History
Development on uClibc started around 1999.[3] uClibc was mostly written from scratch,[4] but has incorporated code from glibc and other projects.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ uClibc FAQ: Licensing
- ^ uClibc naming Accessed on February 10, 2008.
- ^ http://www.uclibc.org/copyright.txt
- ^ "History". uClibc FAQ. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
- ^ "uClibc Changelog". Retrieved on 2007-06-19. “pthreads support (derived from glibc 2.1.3's linuxthreads library) [...] Merged in the random number support (rand, srand, etc) from glibc.”
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