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loris@caren.demon.co.uk (Loris Caren) writes:

>This is a good idea but not strictly necessary since what the docs don't 
>tell you (cos I guess the clever Cygnus/FSF folks think it obvious) is 
>that an embedded setup is supported by all the flavors (provided the 
>embedded code doesn't try to make use of the system calls which won't 
>make much sense).

  That's one of the reasons we wrote newlib. Newlib is a free libc for embedded
systems. The system call layer is seperate in the source tree, but it all gets
built into libc. The only other part is the lowest level I/O code which has
been moved into a seperate library. This was read, open, etc... (which are
really system calls) work on whatever target you happen to be on. I've never
looked at glibc, but newlib works quite well on a large variety of embedded
systems.

  As far as the docs go, it's not that we think we're so clever, but like many
engineers writing docs is our least favorite task, and there never seems to
be enough time to write stuff down. In a way, the source code is the ultimate
documentation, so that's where the time goes. 

	- rob -

sigh... standard disclaimer applies...
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