Dietlibc

dietlibc

Developer(s)	Felix von Leitner
Stable release	0.35 / October 31, 2024;4 months ago (2024-10-31)
Operating system	Cross-platform [ citation needed ]
Platform	Alpha, ARM, PA-RISC, IA-64, i386, MIPS, s390x, SPARC, PowerPC
Type	Runtime library
License	GPLv2
Website	www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

dietlibc is a C standard library subset released under the GNU General Public License Version 2, and proprietary licenses are also available. It was developed with the help of about 100 volunteers by Felix von Leitner with the goal to compile and link programs to the smallest possible size. ^[1] dietlibc was developed from scratch and thus only implements the most important and commonly used functions. It is mainly used in embedded devices.^{[ which? ]}

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• C standard libraries

References

1. diet libc - credits

Further reading

• Karim Yaghmour; Jon Masters; Gilad Ben-Yossef; Philippe Gerum (2008). Building Embedded Linux Systems (2nd ed.). O'Reilly Media. pp. 127–129. ISBN   978-0-596-52968-0.
• von Hagen, William L. (2006). The Definitive Guide to GCC (Second ed.). Berkeley, CA: APress. pp. 283–285. ISBN   1-59059-585-8.

External links

• Official website
• Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux