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Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:47:59 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: A quick note on <newlib.h>
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:08:30PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:03:34AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>
>>[SNIP]
>>
>>Licensing.
>
>Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking, maybe just not enough coffee... 
>I guess forking seems like the only viable option other then 
>hacking/porting parts of one of the *BSD distros' libc into a new-newlib 
>(a very massive undertaking).

I was actually thinking about seeing how well sfio would work.  That would
remove huge chunks of newlib from cygwin.

cgf

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