glibc, glib and gnulib

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Tim picture Tim · Feb 10, 2010 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

what are differences in the strength and features in gnulib glib and glibc Thanks!

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams picture Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Feb 10, 2010

glibc is a core C runtime library. It provides things like printf(3) and fopen(3).

glib is an object-based event loop and utility library written in C.

gnulib is a library that provides an adapter from the POSIX API to the native API.

All three are used for completely different tasks.

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