From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21665 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2009 20:43:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 21658 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Oct 2009 20:43:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (HELO ey-out-1920.google.com) (74.125.78.148) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:43:29 +0000 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so6472290eye.14 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.211.128.15 with SMTP id f15mr756709ebn.57.1255121007228; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm682172eyb.37.2009.10.09.13.43.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ACFA3E5.40703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:43:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ELIX? References: <626622.41479.qm@web51006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4e41f5c20910091033v7bf3739dk1b0783392c970cae@mail.gmail.com> <20091009182432.GB29363@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4ACF98AE.7040300@gmail.com> <20091009202915.GB30037@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20091009202915.GB30037@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00018.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Yeh, I remember that thread. I never knew there was a homepage and a spec document kicking around though. cheers, DaveK