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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:33:21 +0100
From: Shiz <hi@...z.me>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: alx.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memmem.3: Added list of known systems where this
is available
Hi there,
> On 23 Nov Reiwa 4, at 14:16, Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@...il.com> wrote:
>
>>>> - Android is not a real Unix system, in that you can't even program in C in
>>>> there, unless you're Google or have hacked your system. It's not friendly
>>>> to us programmers, so we don't need to be friendly to it. I don't want to
>>>> be cluttering the pages with information that is irrelevant to normal users.
>>>
>>> I'm assuming bionic is being used in some of the Android free
>>> alternatives too, but then I'm not sure how usable for programming those
>>> are either. And, well musl libc is not a real Unix system you can program
>>> against either. :)
>
> The difference is only that bionic is not in use in useful systems (AFAIK). :)
>
> So we have to do some decission here (and also about newlib, as reported by Brian).
I’d like to chime in here and note that, valuations of usefulness aside, it *is*
possible to develop in C against an Android device, without needing any hacks,
using the NDK[1]. As someone who has occasionally worked on big codebases written
in C and C++ for Android devices, I would argue there’s value to be had there. :-)
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
- Shiz
[1]: https://developer.android.com/ndk
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