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diet libc contains the system call wrappers and the most commonly-used functions you expect from a libc. It can be used to create small, statically-linked binaries under x86, AMD64, SPARC, SPARC64, PPC, PPC64, ARM, MIPS, MIPS64, PA-RISC, S/390, S/390x (64-bit S/390), and Alpha-Linux.

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2001-11-17 03:48
0.12

32-bit uid/gid support, rand48, thread-safe versions of many functions, adjtime, and many bugfixes.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2001-08-01 03:52
0.11

x86 math routines, a stdio rewrite, no more need for kernel headers, an iconv implementation, openpty, and much more.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2001-05-23 23:20
0.10

This release includes a lot of additions and fixes. The most important ones are
IPv6 DNS routines, a regular expression engine, Sun RPC, realpath, mntent,
scandir, and alphasort, integration of libpthread.a in the build tree,
getserv*, and optional usage of "domain" and "search" from /etc/resolv.conf.
The diet libc can now link openssl, openssh, links, the zsh, busybox, and
several popular Web servers.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2001-04-19 14:15
0.9

Moved object and library files into a separate
directory (bin-$ARCH). Added diet program and a
man page to assist in compiling and linking
against the diet libc. Added fnmatch. Fixed a few
bugs.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2001-03-20 05:36
0.8

This is a major upgrade with numerous new features and fixes. A few highlights include a gethostby{name,addr} with DNS support, crypt, qsort, bsearch, linker warnings, ungetc, an experimental pthreads implementation, kernel 2.0 and 2.2 backwards-compatibility for large file support, support for /etc/localtime (including daylight saving time), pseudo-locale support for ctype based on weak ELF symbols, and much more.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

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