musl

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musl
Musl libc.png
Developer(s) Rich Felker (dalias) and others
Initial release February 11, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-11)[1]
Stable release 1.1.14[2] / February 22, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-02-22)
Operating system Linux 2.6 or later
Platform x86, x86 64, ARM, MIPS, Microblaze, PowerPC, SuperH
Type
License MIT License
Website www.musl-libc.org

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For the American lottery organization often called MUSL, see Multi-State Lottery Association.

musl is a C standard library intended for operating systems based on the Linux kernel, released under the MIT License.[3] It was developed by Rich Felker with the goal to write a clean, efficient and standards-conformant libc implementation. It is designed from scratch to allow efficient static linking and to have realtime-quality robustness by avoiding races, internal failures on resource exhaustion and various other bad worst-case behaviours present in existing implementations.[4] The dynamic runtime is a single file with stable ABI allowing race-free updates and the static linking support allows an application to be deployed as a single portable binary without significant size overhead.

It claims compatibility with the POSIX 2008 specification and the C11 standard.[5] It also implements most of the widely used non-standard Linux, BSD, and glibc functions.[citation needed]

As of 2015, Linux distributions that use musl as the standard C library include Alpine Linux, OpenWRT,[6] Sabotage,[7] Morpheus Linux[8] and optionally prebuilt for Void Linux.

See also

Other C standard libraries

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References

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ COPYRIGHT
  4. ↑ Introduction to musl
  5. ↑ Compatibility - musl libc wiki
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage
  8. ↑ http://morpheus.2f30.org/

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