From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15603 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2009 20:29:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 15594 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Oct 2009 20:29:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-48-2.bstnma.east.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.48.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:29:25 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4A83B0002 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:29:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id B9AD52B352; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:29:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:29:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ELIX? Message-ID: <20091009202915.GB30037@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <626622.41479.qm@web51006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4e41f5c20910091033v7bf3739dk1b0783392c970cae@mail.gmail.com> <20091009182432.GB29363@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4ACF98AE.7040300@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ACF98AE.7040300@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell 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*. > > Not /entirely/ vanished: > > http://sourceware.org/elix/ > >... but not updated in a looong time. Well, no. It obviously didn't entirely vanish or people wouldn't be asking why it was in newlib. I asked Jeff Johnston if I could delete it from newlib once and he told me that it still had some use. I don't remember what that was though. cgf