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DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I'm curious.  Will v2.04 use the standard GNU C library or is that out of
> > the question?
>
> That's out of the question.

But was not the Gnu C library designed to be portable to different
OSes? I remember I read that it once supported several OSes, not only
Linux and Hurd. The developers even encouraged other programmers to
develop new ports of glibc; they said it would not be too hard. What
has become of this idea?

Udo

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