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I had a similar question to this once, and what I mainly found out was that FreeBSD's (and thus OSX's) libc is much, much, more readable than glibc.
by jbrichter 12y ago
I had a similar question to this once, and what I mainly found out was that FreeBSD's (and thus OSX's) libc is much, much, more readable than glibc.
- hostilefork 12y agoYou're correct.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- jedisct1 12y agoAny other C library is more readable than glibc. Even on Linux, the Musl C library is far far far more readable. The OpenBSD C library is the one I usually look at when I want to understand how a specific function works. It doesn't have insane optimizations or bloat like glibc, but it's clean and portable.
- jbrichter 12y agoThe only thing you can begin to understand by reading glibc is the terrible genius of Ulrich Drepper.