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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-08-29 23:54:00 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-08-29 23:54:00 +0000
commit696ea9299e02da2d9e26a34ce133bd934c7972a8 (patch)
treeac12e66e717020212c3c56a2cdbb14dcb73da7e1 /docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt
parente71b7cc95c5c77db093a1b91f6009f8d10780942 (diff)
Remove comments about wordexp.
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diff --git a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt
index 7760d2321..e557b56be 100644
--- a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt
+++ b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ all your binaries.
uClibc calling malloc(0) returns a NULL. The behavior of malloc(0) is listed
as implementation-defined by SuSv3, so both libraries are equally correct.
This difference also applies to realloc(NULL, 0). I personally feel glibc's
-behavior is not particularly safe.
+behavior is not particularly safe. To enable glibc behavior, one has to
+explicitly enable the MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT option.
4.1) glibc's malloc() implementation has behavior that is tunable via the
MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable. This is primarily used to provide extra
@@ -62,14 +63,11 @@ then the long double support is quite limited.
11) uClibc's libcrypt does not support the reentrant crypt_r, setkey_r and
encrypt_r, since these are not required by SuSv3.
-12) uClibc does not implement wordexp()
+12) uClibc directly uses the kernel types to define most opaque data types.
+13) uClibc directly uses the linux kernel's arch specific 'stuct stat'.
-13) uClibc directly uses the kernel types to define most opaque data types.
-
-14) uClibc directly uses the linux kernel's arch specific 'stuct stat'.
-
-15) Add other things here as they come up......
+14) Add other things here as they come up......