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by **xo..** » Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:28:47

I have been looking all over for this answer, but i am out of luck.
from a programmers perspective, what is the difference between libc5 and
glibc? for ionstance, what type of code coould i compile under glibc
that i couldn't under libc5? the only thing that i could find was some
headers (errno.h) had to be explicitly called, and that signals are more
BSD than SRV. are there anyu other differences, or does anybody know
any docs which explain the differences?

thank you....

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by **v..** » Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:50:23

> I have been looking all over for this answer, but i am out of luck.
> from a programmers perspective, what is the difference between libc5 and
> glibc? for ionstance, what type of code coould i compile under glibc
> that i couldn't under libc5? the only thing that i could find was some
> headers (errno.h) had to be explicitly called, and that signals are more
> BSD than SRV. are there anyu other differences, or does anybody know
> any docs which explain the differences?

> thank you....

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Struct packing:

under libc5 - packed (you can use fpack-struct in Makefile to pack your structs)
under glibc - not packed (you can't use fpack-struct in Makefile and you must
use #pragma pack(1) to pack your structs)

Also you can see changes by this command (if you want)

for i in `ls /usr/doc/glibc-2.1.2/Change*`;do less $i;done

--
+----------------------+
| Andrey V. Valik |
| Papillon Systems |

+----------------------+

by **D. Stimit** » Sun, 24 Dec 2000 10:45:33

> I have been looking all over for this answer, but i am out of luck.
> from a programmers perspective, what is the difference between libc5 and
> glibc? for ionstance, what type of code coould i compile under glibc
> that i couldn't under libc5? the only thing that i could find was some
> headers (errno.h) had to be explicitly called, and that signals are more
> BSD than SRV. are there anyu other differences, or does anybody know
> any docs which explain the differences?

> thank you....

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I'm not positive to what extent it applies, but much of glibc has
reentrant or otherwise threadsafe versions of functions that can be
used, whereas this was virtually non-existent in older libc5.

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