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> BTW: Why is libiberty called libiberty

It's a play on words, sort of.  In Unix, library "foo" has file
"libfoo.a" and uses "-lfoo" to link, so with libiberty, you end up
typing "-liberty" on your command lines all the time.  The idea was to
liberate the programmer from the deficiencies of the OS-supplied
library by fixing or supplying whatever the OS lacked, like strdup,
which isn't available in Ultrix, and memcmp, which isn't available in
SunOS.

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