Purpose of glibc

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From: Michael D. Berger
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:00

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I am new at dealing with gnu software, so please
excuse an elementary question.

What is the purpose of glibc?  One person I asked
this said that is only for use on systems that do
not have any libc at all.  These would often be
non-unix systems.  On the other hand, I see on this
newsgroup that people are installing it on Sun
systems that must certainly have their own libc.

Any comments would be appreciated, including references
to reading material that would clarify this.  Thanks.

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