Re:Learn to Read Code
by panic on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:26AM
(#14663538)
BTW, if you're going to read a C standard library, skip glibc and go for musl: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src
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There was an article last week-ish about reading OpenBSD source daily.
Re:Learn to Read Code
by woodrowbarlow on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:32AM
(#14664091)
why do you say that?
Because libcs other than glibc are less bloated and probably easier to read.
~ $ cat empty.c
int main(void) {return 42;}
~ $ gcc -static empty.c -O3
~ $ strip a.out
~ $ size
text data bss dec hex filename
677598 5792 10464 693854 a965e a.out
~ $ diet gcc -static empty.c -O3
~ $ strip a.out
~ $ size
text data bss dec hex filename
901 32 76 1009 3f1 a.out