Re: [HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Last call?

"Thomas G. Lockhart" wrote:
>> can you distinguish between linux with libc5 and with glibc?
>
>Yes, if necessary. I'm running glibc at work (with the RH 6.3.2 rpms)
>and libc5 at home (with v6.4beta). I don't expect there to be any
>significant differences; are you aware of any?

No; there are minor textual differences in the math overflow messages
and, last time I tried, the geometry tests had differences of around
10 ^ -12.

>...
>Or are you just saying that we should mention both explicitly so that
>people can know that it would work on their machine for sure?

Precisely.

The difference is such a major one that linux-libc5 and linux-glibc
should be regarded nearly as two different systems.
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