If I recall correctly, the most recent newlib version is better, but my chops weren't strong enough to migrate the patches in nestedvm's trunk. <div><br>Brian, out of curiousity, why was it necessary to patch newlib? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Louis Santillan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpsantil@gmail.com">lpsantil@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What about musl or maybe dietlibc? (<a href="http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html" target="_blank">http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html</a>)<br><font color="#888888"><br>-L</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br><br>On Thursday, September 1, 2011, Brian Alliet <<a href="mailto:brian@brianweb.net" target="_blank">brian@brianweb.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:07:27AM +0200, Bertram, Alexander wrote:<br>>> - Newlib is the biggest block. As Brian said, it's a subset of glibc and<br>>> nestedvm uses an older version which is even smaller. There is some<br>
>> functionality missing (iconv, threads) but also a lot of superficial<br>>> differences (like no stdint.h) that take time to paper over.<br>><br>> I knew newlib had some limitations, but I wasn't aware it was causing<br>
> this much trouble. I guess we were just lucky enough to have really<br>> clean, almost pure ANSI C software to work with, which ran without a<br>> hitch under newlib.<br>><br>> I suspect getting glibc running on NestedVM wouldn't be too difficult<br>
> for somebody familiar with the glibc codebase, but the last time I<br>> looked at it I was scared off. If I had it to do over again I'd<br>> probably pick up the libc from one of the BSDs and use that. They're<br>
> much more up to date, but still simple enough to be easily understood.<br>><br>> -Brian<br>><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _______________________________________________<br>> Nestedvm mailing list<br>
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