diet libc contains the system call wrappers and the most commonly-used functions you expect from a libc. It can be used to create small, statically-linked binaries under x86, AMD64, SPARC, SPARC64, PPC, PPC64, ARM, MIPS, MIPS64, PA-RISC, S/390, S/390x (64-bit S/390), and Alpha-Linux.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Assembly C |
Recent releases


Changes: Improvements to GCC 4 support. toascii, ustat, strnlen, clearenv, ngettext, dngettext, strdupa, and strndupa are provided. Extended attribute, thread, and misc. syscalls have been added. There are many general and platform-specific bugfixes.


Changes: Dynamic linking for AMD64, gdb support for ld.so, and many fixes.


Changes: diet can now use $DIETHOME to locate the installation. Some BSD backwards compatibility cruft was added. A few bugfixes were made.


Changes: Many bug and portability fixes.


Changes: This release has PPC64 and s390x targets, PA-RIS and IA-64 build fixes. Many standards compliance issues have been fixed.
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Recent commentsreally, really, really nice
It's the most beautifull piece of code of this size that I've seen from last few years.
Thanks for all.