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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:53:17 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Automating libc comparison

On 04/20/2013 12:46:39 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a project I'd like to do but I thought I probably should spend
> the time actually coding/maintaining, so I figured I'd post it in case
> anyone else wants to help or do it:
> 
> Basic idea is to automate the libc comparison
> (http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html) so that we can keep it up
> to date and add new libcs (BSD? Bionic? etc.) and tests to it. A good
> part of the challenge is doing tests in a fairly libc-agnostic way so
> the same tests could be applied with little effort to other libcs.
> Some ideas:

I note that toybox has a bsd-licensed shell script version of  
bloat-o-meter:

http://landley.net/hg/toybox/file/tip/scripts/bloatcheck

Might come in handy?

Rob

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