<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><disclaimer: I work at Google, though not on anything related to this project><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 24, 2019, at 3:23 PM, Siva Chandra via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-31026820-7fff-9c8b-7125-459f728330fd" class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are still in the early stages, but we do have some high-level goals and guiding principles of the initial scope we are interested in pursuing:</span></div><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">The project should mesh with the "as a library" philosophy of the LLVM project: even though "the C Standard Library" is nominally "a library," most implementations are, in practice, quite monolithic.</span></div></li></ol></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This is awesome. I’d really love to see a corpus of functionality built as a set of libraries that can be sliced and remixed in different ways per the needs of different use-cases.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-31026820-7fff-9c8b-7125-459f728330fd" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For these areas, the community is of course free to contribute. Our hope is that, preserving the "as a library" design philosophy will make such extensions easy, and allow retaining the simplicity when these features aren't needed.</span></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Fantastic!</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-31026820-7fff-9c8b-7125-459f728330fd" class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We intend to build the new libc in a gradual manner. To begin with, the new libc will be a layer sitting between the application and the system libc. Eventually, when the implementation is sufficiently complete, it will be able to replace the system libc at least for some use cases and contexts.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">So, what do you think about incorporating this new libc under the LLVM project?</span></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">I would love to see this, and I think it would fill a significant missing piece in the LLVM ecosystem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>