Embedded Linux Conference 2013 - olibc: Another C Runtime Library

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The Linux Foundation
Embedded Linux Conference 2013
olibc: Another C Runtime Library for Embedded Linux
By Jim Huang
San Francisco, California

olibc is derived from bionic libc used in Android, which was initially derived from NetBSD libc. olibc is expected to merge the enhancements done by several SoC vendors and partners, such as Qualcomm, TI, Linaro, etc., which is known to be the major difference from glibc, uclibc, and other traditional C library implementations. Typically, the code size of olibc runtime should be about 300 KB. For ARM target, olibc would benefit from ARMv7 specific features like NEON, Thumb-2, VFPv3/VFPv4, and latest compiler optimization techniques. Also, olibc is released under BSD License.

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