GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features

    Phoronix: GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features

    The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...

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  • ayumu
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2008
    • 664

    #2
    And distros are going to just "upgrade" to this, instead of switching to much saner musl + llvm libc++.

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    • geerge
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2023
      • 362

      #3
      musl might be a more pure c implementation, smaller neater "saner" as you're probably saying. But can you expect to plop it into Ubuntu say and not have a tonne of issues from software that expects esoteric gcc implementation detail xyz? From a distro perspective the technical debt may cause rather a lot of sanity loss.

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      • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 1590

        #4
        Originally posted by ayumu View Post
        And distros are going to just "upgrade" to this, instead of switching to much saner musl + llvm libc++.
        Which seems like the rationale thing to do versus breaking a bunch of popular software for their users (e.g. Steam).

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        • edxposed
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2023
          • 316

          #5
          Hopefully llvm-libc will be production ready soon to replace glibc and musl. It's really cool to have a libc with a modern build system, sanitizers and LTO support.

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          • edxposed
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2023
            • 316

            #6
            Originally posted by pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx View Post

            Which seems like the rationale thing to do versus breaking a bunch of popular software for their users (e.g. Steam).
            You can run it in a container. Even glibc distributions should do this to avoid 32bit shit contaminating the main userspace.

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            • NateHubbard
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2015
              • 588

              #7
              Originally posted by ayumu View Post
              And distros are going to just "upgrade" to this, instead of switching to much saner musl + llvm libc++.
              If you've ever run that you'd know why. Also, most people would rather have the performance of glibc.

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              • skeevy420
                Senior Member
                • May 2017
                • 8656

                #8
                Originally posted by NateHubbard View Post

                If you've ever run that you'd know why. Also, most people would rather have the performance of glibc.
                Heck, cool and neat things aside, some days I just like my desktop to work. Using Linux makes things difficult enough without throwing another incompatibility like MUSL on top of things. Technically better or not, software actually working is more important than working acceptable or working fast.

                Faster and runs more software? Nah, fuck it, people want technically better

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                • Volta
                  Senior Member
                  • Apr 2019
                  • 2280

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ayumu View Post
                  And distros are going to just "upgrade" to this, instead of switching to much saner musl + llvm libc++.
                  Yes, distros prefer this instead of crap you have mentioned.

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                  • NateHubbard
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2015
                    • 588

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Volta View Post

                    Yes, distros prefer this instead of crap you have mentioned.
                    That's not fair either though. In the right environment, musl is absolutely the appropriate choice.
                    Why do we have to be on sides all the time? Why can't I like all these things?

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