[llvm-dev] A libc in LLVM

[Zachary Turner via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:48 AM Jan Ziak via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I find it interesting that a reimplementation of libc is being
> discussed without clearly stating the differences and benefits of the
> new implementation.
>
> Or did I miss the discussion about the differences?


I can’t speak for Siva’s and/or Google, but two obvious differences that
come to mind for me personally are:

1) the license

2) there is currently no existing open source implementation of libc for
Windows that works with native Windows / MSABI toolchains.  clang on
Windows, for example, has a hard dependency on a full visual studio
installation for exactly this reason.
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