glibc vs. newlib

[Marius Groeger]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Mark Hatle wrote:

> looks promising.  For a more traditional linux system, glibc is
> truely the only way to do it.  (With special tools you can
> dramatically reduce the size of glibc, but not as far as most people
> would like.)

This kind of size reduction (aka. "optimisation") sounds sort of scary
to me. Glibc is a big and complicated beast (look, for instance, at
the rather loose ties by which the libnss-stuff is held together). You
seem to have some experience here. Can you seriously recommend this
for _production_ software?

Regards,
Marius

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