musl
Developer(s) | Rich Felker (dalias) and others |
---|---|
Initial release | February 11, 2011[1] |
Stable release |
1.1.15[2]
/ July 5, 2016 |
Operating system | Linux 2.6 or later |
Platform | x86, x86 64, ARM, MIPS, Microblaze, PowerPC, SuperH |
Type | |
License | MIT License |
Website |
www |
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.
As of 2015, Linux distributions that use musl as the standard C library include Alpine Linux, Dragora 3, OpenWRT,[6] Sabotage,[7] Morpheus Linux[8] and optionally prebuilt for Void Linux.
See also
References
- ↑ "musl - obsolete versions". musl-libc.org. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-09-26.>
- ↑ "Download musl". musl-libc.org. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ↑ Rich Felker et al. (2016-04-29). "COPYRIGHT". Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ↑ "Introduction to musl". 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ↑ "Compatibility". wiki.musl-libc.org. 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ↑ Fietkau, Felix (2015-06-15). "OpenWrt switches to musl by default". openwrt-devel. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ↑ README.md on GitHub
- ↑ "morpheus-base: README". Retrieved 2016-09-26.
External links
- Official website
- Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
- Matrix of C/POSIX standard libraries by architecture
- Project:Hardened musl on Gentoo wiki