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Subject: Re: ELIX?
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>defines and guards in newlib)?
>
>It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?

IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
vanishing with a *poof*.

cgf