From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Sep 17 10:02:18 2006 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <450CFF50.5030109@highlandsun.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:54:56 -0700 From: Howard Chu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060911 Netscape/7.2 (ax) Firefox/1.5 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?windows-1252?Q?Adam_K=3Fobukowski?= Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] glibc for m68k/mint? References: <200609170306.23477.miro.kropacek@gmail.com> <1158463555.6524.30.camel@evil.atari-source.com> <450CEF39.3020206@gabo.pl> In-Reply-To: <450CEF39.3020206@gabo.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: hyc@highlandsun.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Adam K?obukowski wrote: > Mark Duckworth napisa?(a): >> Glibc depends heavily upon the linux kernel as far as I know. Without >> modern kernel interfaces, no modern libc. We need virtual memory. I >> thought you were working on that :-P > > I don't think that dependency is so heavy - libc supports also Hurd > and some othere (don't remember now) systems. So it may be pretty > portable. Btw. it supports m68k out-of-the-box. > Aren't there still archives of this list? These questions have been asked and answered before. glibc is several times larger than mintlib, and quite a bit slower. It also didn't exist when we first started developing MiNT, gcc, and the associated tools. Perhaps people running MiNT on fast 68K emulators today don't care so much, but even the smallest program linked with glibc would eat up a sizable chunk of an Atari ST's RAM... -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/