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Few questions #16

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kasperk81 opened this issue May 11, 2021 · 1 comment
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Few questions #16

kasperk81 opened this issue May 11, 2021 · 1 comment

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@kasperk81
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In Linux, musl is received as a light libc variant, and alternative to glibc. Over the years/decades, glibc has gathered bulk due to backwards compatibility support, which musl shaves off, and generally developers of musl libc make choices to keep the code size small (it's almost 1/3rd of the size of glibc).

Given the above, I have few questions:

  1. Does FreeBSD's libc also suffer with same "bulkiness" issue as glibc, such that it makes observable difference when it was replaced by musl?
  2. Do you see a potential in upstreamming patches to musl?
  3. Do you see a potential in proposing a change to FreeBSD to make building the OS with musl (instead of FreeBSD's in-tree libc) optional?
@kiwidoggie
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  1. FreeBSD libc had issues being built outside of the source tree
  2. No, most likely not in the near future
  3. I don't think so, unless you have some other discussion about it.

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