Software:dietlibc

Short description: Implementation of C standard library

dietlibc

Developer(s)	Felix von Leitner
Stable release	0.34 / September 24, 2018 (2018-09-24)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Alpha, ARM, PA-RISC, ia64, i386, MIPS, s390, sparc, PowerPC
Type	Runtime library
License	GPLv2
Website	www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

dietlibc is a C standard library released under the GNU General Public License Version 2, and proprietary licenses are also available. It was developed with the help of about 100 volunteers by Felix von Leitner with the goal to compile and link programs to the smallest possible size. dietlibc was developed from scratch and thus only implements the most important and commonly used functions. It is mainly used in embedded devices.

See also

• C standard libraries

Further reading

• Karim Yaghmour; Jon Masters; Gilad Ben-Yossef; Philippe Gerum (2008). Building Embedded Linux Systems (2nd ed.). O'Reilly Media. pp. 127–129. ISBN 978-0-596-52968-0. 
• von Hagen, William L. (2006). The Definitive Guide to GCC (Second ed.). Berkeley, CA: APress. pp. 283–285. ISBN 1-59059-585-8. 

External links

• Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux