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Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?
Ray Hurst wrote:
> It was my understanding that if I write a C program and compiled it with
> gcc that gcc used newlib for all of the stdlib functions including
> malloc, realloc and free.
Gcc doesn't have any choice in the matter. All it knows is that there's
a C library on the system, that's it. It doesn't know nor care where or
how the C library is implemented.
In the case of Cygwin, the C library is provided by Cygwin, in the form
of cygwin1.dll. Cygwin relies on newlib to implement some things, but
malloc is not one of them.
Brian
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