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Revision as of 21:34, 6 January 2004 by Coren (talk | contribs) (We *don't* want to get into the linux naming war; but GNU does indeed use glibc.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)glibc is an implementation of the Standard C library developed by the GNU project along with GCC.
In addition to providing the facilities mandated by the C programming language standards, it provides a number of (non-standard) extensions and performance improvements.
One of the design objectives of glibc is portability, and it is avaliable for many operating systems as a consequence. Some operating systems, such as GNU and Linux, include and use glibc as their official standard C library.
The latest version of glibc is 2.3.2.