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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the ilibc-ulibc-we-all-C-for-libc dept.

dalias writes

"The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight, fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are known to build successfully against musl.

Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:50PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:50PM (#19122) Homepage Journal

    char data[] is an incomplete type.

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  • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Friday March 21 2014, @12:25AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Friday March 21 2014, @12:25AM (#19124) Homepage Journal

    Wait, guess it isn't in C99. I'm tired.

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    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:06PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:06PM (#19670) Journal

      In C99, it is specifically allowed at the end of a struct. It allows to allocate extra memory after the struct and use that as members of the array. It's called flexible array member.

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