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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by jedisct1 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:29PM (#8411156)
Any other C library is more readable than glibc. Even on Linux, the Musl C library is far far far more readable.

The OpenBSD C library is the one I usually look at when I want to understand how a specific function works. It doesn't have insane optimizations or bloat like glibc, but it's clean and portable.

Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by jbrichter on Sunday October 05, 2014 @01:49AM (#8411564)
The only thing you can begin to understand by reading glibc is the terrible genius of Ulrich Drepper.