GNU C Library
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The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library. It provides a wrapper around the system calls of the Linux kernel and other kernels for application use. Despite its name, it now also directly supports C++ (and, indirectly, other programming languages). It was started in the 1980s by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU operating system.
Key facts
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like
- Software.genre
- Runtime library
- Software.license
- 2001: LGPL-2.1-or-later1992: LGPL-2.0-or-later
- Software.name
- GNU C Library
- Software.logo size
- 100px
- Software.author
- Roland McGrath
- Software.developer
- GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper
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