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Message-ID: <20110408024126.GX16304@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:41:26 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Wishlist for musl 1.0 ?

Greetings again,

With most essential functionality implemented and serious bug-hunting
underway, I hope to quickly move out of the "alpha" phase, and aim to
release "1.0" sometime this summer. I have put together a tentative
list of requirements for what will constitute "musl 1.0", on which I
would like some feedback from the community. I'd like to go ahead and
decide on these so the project can have some concrete goals and a way
to measure how far we still have to go. Comments welcome!

Regards,

Rich



Proposed requirements for 1.0:


Implementations of all interfaces in ISO C99, including math.

Implementations of all required functions in POSIX 2008 base and
explicitly-supported option groups.

Character class handling synchronized with latest Unicode.

Dynamic linking and dynamic loader (dlopen/dlsym) support for both
dynamic and static linked applications.

Known compatibility with a yet-to-be-determined collection of
applications selected as particularly important.

Ability of the dynamic linker to successfully load and run
glibc-linked programs as long as they don't use features which are
not-yet-implemented in musl.

Support for at least one C++ compiler and library, but not necessarily
any ABI-compatibility with C++ programs which were not explicitly
built against musl.

Documenting of all implementation-defined behavior as required by the
C and POSIX standards, as well as implementation details that might be
of interest to programmers using musl such as the behavior of malloc,
threads, stdio, etc. and how they compare to other implementations.

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