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- uClibc and Glibc are not the same -- there are a number of differences which
-may or may not cause you problems.  This document attempts to list these
-differences and, when completed, will contain a full list of all relevant
-differences.
-
-
-1) uClibc is smaller than glibc.  We attempt to maintain a glibc compatible
-interface, allowing applications that compile with glibc to easily compile with
-uClibc.  However, we do not include _everything_ that glibc includes, and
-therefore some applications may not compile.  If this happens to you, please
-report the failure to the uclibc mailing list, with detailed error messages.
-
-2) uClibc is much more configurable then glibc.  This means that a developer
-may have compiled uClibc in such a way that significant amounts of
-functionality have been omitted.
-
-3) uClibc does not even attempt to ensure binary compatibility across releases.
-When a new version of uClibc is released, you may or may not need to recompile
-all your binaries.
-
-4) malloc(0) in glibc returns a valid pointer to something(!?!?) while in
-uClibc calling malloc(0) returns a NULL.  The behavior of malloc(0) is listed
-as implementation-defined by SuSv3, so both libraries are equally correct.
-This difference also applies to realloc(NULL, 0).  I personally feel glibc's
-behavior is not particularly safe.  To enable glibc behavior, one has to
-explicitly enable the MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT option.
-
-4.1) glibc's malloc() implementation has behavior that is tunable via the
-MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable.  This is primarily used to provide extra
-malloc debugging features.  These extended malloc debugging features are not
-available within uClibc.  There are many good malloc debugging libraries
-available for Linux (dmalloc, electric fence, valgrind, etc) that work much
-better than the glibc extended malloc debugging.  So our omitting this
-functionality from uClibc is not a great loss.
-
-5) uClibc does not provide a database library (libdb).
-
-6) uClibc does not support NSS (/lib/libnss_*), which allows glibc to easily
-support various methods of authentication and DNS resolution.  uClibc only
-supports flat password files and shadow password files for storing
-authentication information.  If you need something more complex than this,
-you can compile and install pam.
-
-7) uClibc's libresolv is only a stub.  Some, but not all of the functionality
-provided by glibc's libresolv is provided internal to uClibc.  Other functions
-are not at all implemented.
-
-8) libnsl provides support for Network Information Service (NIS) which was
-originally called "Yellow Pages" or "YP", which is an extension of RPC invented
-by Sun to share Unix password files over the network.  I personally think NIS
-is an evil abomination and should not be used.  These days, using ldap is much
-more effective mechanism for doing the same thing.  uClibc provides a stub
-libnsl, but has no actual support for Network Information Service (NIS).
-We therefore, also do not provide any of the headers files provided by glibc
-under /usr/include/rpcsvc.
-
-9) uClibc's locale support is not 100% complete yet.  We are working on it.
-
-10) uClibc's math library only supports long double as inlines, and even
-then the long double support is quite limited.  Also, very few of the
-float math functions are implemented.  Stick with double and you should
-be just fine.
-
-11) uClibc's libcrypt does not support the reentrant crypt_r, setkey_r and
-encrypt_r, since these are not required by SuSv3.
-
-12) uClibc directly uses kernel types to define most opaque data types.
-
-13) uClibc directly uses the linux kernel's arch specific 'stuct stat'.
-
-14) uClibc's librt library currently lacks all aio routines, all clock
-    routines, and all shm routines (only the timer routines and the mq
-    routines are implemented).
-
-<other things as we notice them>
-
-
-
-******************************  Manuel's Notes  ******************************
-
-Some general comments...
-
-The intended target for all my uClibc code is ANSI/ISO C99 and SUSv3
-compliance.  While some glibc extensions are present, many will eventually
-be configurable.  Also, even when present, the glibc-like extensions may
-differ slightly or be more restrictive than the native glibc counterparts.
-They are primarily meant to be porting _aides_ and not necessarily
-drop-in replacements.
-
-Now for some details...
-
-time functions
---------------
-1) Leap seconds are not supported.
-2) /etc/timezone and the whole zoneinfo directory tree are not supported.
-   To set the timezone, set the TZ environment variable as specified in
-   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
-   or you may also create an /etc/TZ file of a single line, ending with a
-   newline, containing the TZ setting.  For example
-   echo CST6CDT > /etc/TZ
-3) Currently, locale specific eras and alternate digits are not supported.
-   They are on my TODO list.
-
-wide char support
------------------
-1) The only multibyte encoding currently supported is UTF-8.  The various
-   ISO-8859-* encodings are (optionally) supported.  The internal
-   representation of wchar's is assumed to be 31 bit unicode values in
-   native endian representation.  Also, the underlying char encoding is
-   assumed to match ASCII in the range 0-0x7f.
-2) In the next iteration of locale support, I plan to add support for
-   (at least some) other multibyte encodings.
-
-locale support
---------------
-1) The target for support is SUSv3 locale functionality.  While nl_langinfo
-   has been extended, similar to glibc, it only returns values for related
-   locale entries.
-2) Currently, all SUSv3 libc locale functionality should be implemented
-   except for wcsftime and collating item support in regex.
-
-stdio
------
-1) Conversion of large magnitude floating-point values by printf suffers a loss
-   of precision due to the algorithm used.
-2) uClibc's printf is much stricter than glibcs, especially regarding positional
-   args.  The entire format string is parsed first and an error is returned if
-   a problem is detected.  In locales other than C, the format string is checked
-   to be a valid multibyte sequence as well.  Also, currently at most 10 positional
-   args are allowed (although this is configurable).
-3) BUFSIZ is configurable, but no attempt is made at automatic tuning of internal
-   buffer sizes for stdio streams.  In fact, the stdio code in general sacrifices
-   sophistication/performace for minimal size.
-4) uClibc allows glibc-like custom printf functions.  However, while not
-   currently checked, the specifier must be <= 0x7f.
-5) uClibc allows glibc-like custom streams.  However, no in-buffer seeking is
-   done.
-6) The functions fcloseall() and __fpending() can behave differently than their
-   glibc counterparts.
-7) uClibc's setvbuf is more restrictive about when it can be called than glibc's
-   is.  The standards specify that setvbuf must occur before any other operations
-   take place on the stream.
-8) Right now, %m is not handled properly by printf when the format uses positional
-   args.
-9) The FILEs created by glibc's fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie()
-   are not capable of wide orientation.  The corresponding uClibc routines do
-   not have this limitation.
-10) For scanf, the C99 standard states "The fscanf function returns the value of
-    the macro EOF if an input failure occurs before any conversion."  But glibc's
-    scanf does not respect conversions for which assignment was surpressed, even
-    though the standard states that the value is converted but not stored.
-
-glibc bugs that Ulrich Drepper has refused to acknowledge or comment on
-  ( http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/ )
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-1) The C99 standard says that for printf, a %s conversion makes no special
-   provisions for multibyte characters.  SUSv3 is even more clear, stating
-   that bytes are written and a specified precision is in bytes.  Yet glibc
-   treats the arg as a multibyte string when a precision is specified and
-   not otherwise.
-2) Both C99 and C89 state that the %c conversion for scanf reads the exact
-   number of bytes specified by the optional field width (or 1 if not specified).
-   uClibc complies with the standard.  There is an argument that perhaps the
-   specified width should be treated as an upper bound, based on some historical
-   use.  However, such behavior should be mentioned in the Conformance document.
-3) glibc's scanf is broken regarding some numeric patterns.  Some invalid
-   strings are accepted as valid ("0x.p", "1e", digit grouped strings).
-   In spite of my posting examples clearly illustrating the bugs, they remain
-   unacknowledged by the glibc developers.
-4) glibc's scanf seems to require a 'p' exponent for hexadecimal float strings.
-   According to the standard, this is optional.
-5) C99 requires that once an EOF is encountered, the stream should be treated
-   as if at end-of-file even if more data becomes available.  Further reading
-   can be attempted by clearing the EOF flag though, via clearerr() or a file
-   positioning function.  For details concerning the original change, see
-   Defect Report #141.  glibc is currently non-compliant, and the developers
-   did not comment when I asked for their official position on this issue.
-6) glibc's collation routines and/or localedef are broken regarding implicit
-   and explicit UNDEFINED rules.
-
-More to follow as I think of it...
-
-
-
-
-Profiling:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-uClibc no longer supports 'gcc -fprofile-arcs  -pg' style profiling, which
-causes your application to generate a 'gmon.out' file that can then be analyzed
-by 'gprof'.  Not only does this require explicit extra support in uClibc, it
-requires that you rebuild everything with profiling support.  There is both a
-size and performance penalty to profiling your applications this way, as well
-as Heisenberg effects, where the act of measuring changes what is measured.
-
-There exist a number of less invasive alternatives that do not require you to
-specially instrument your application, and recompile and relink everything.
-
-The OProfile system-wide profiler is an excellent alternative:
-      http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
-
-Many people have had good results using the combination of Valgrind
-to generate profiling information and KCachegrind for analysis:
-      http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
-      http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/
-
-Prospect is another alternative based on OProfile:
-      http://prospect.sourceforge.net/
-
-And the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is also a fine tool:
-    http://www.opersys.com/LTT/
-
-FunctionCheck:
-	http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~yperret/fnccheck/
-