From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: "look out, it's behind you!" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: ELIX?
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACF98AE.7040300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091009182432.GB29363@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
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 <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*.
Not /entirely/ vanished:
http://sourceware.org/elix/
... but not updated in a looong time.
cheers,
DaveK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 17:21 ELIX? Richard Campbell
2009-10-09 17:33 ` ELIX? Morgan Gangwere
2009-10-09 18:24 ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
2009-10-09 19:55 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2009-10-09 20:29 ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
2009-10-09 20:43 ` ELIX? Dave Korn
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