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an I wonder: would the LLVM libc be written in C++? Also, what would you call it? llibc? Logical next step is to have an LLVM kernel. What would you call that kernel? It would certainly be low-level, and would handle virtual machines (as well as virtual memory).

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Jun 25, 2019

Is it time for an LLVM libc? The Google LLVM team are collecting feedback lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm

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There could be so many more interesting LLVM projects to solve problems with existing platforms! - LLDE - the LLVM Desktop Environment - ALLSA - the Advanced LLVM Sound Architecture

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I wish I could take this as light-heartedly as yousall do, but Google already has its own libc, Bionic, and it's the crappiest of the crap software you can imagine calling itself a libc. They should work on perhaps improving that instead of polluting the space with one more.

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I totally agree it's ridiculous, especially when musl already exists and seems like it serves all their stated needs?

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It doesn't serve their unstated need for Google to have control.

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Yeah, they could at least be forthright about their motivations. Even then, why involve LLVM at all? They already have Bionic, why not fix that?

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Bionic is very specific to Android. It doesn't implement functionality not used on the platform like a POSIX user/group database, non-PIE executables and many other things. It's built on things specific to the platform too (DNS resolution via netd, system properties, API level).

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A lot of it is just taken directly from OpenBSD libc (all of stdio, etc.) and FreeBSD (libm). If musl had been around when they started, I think they'd have started from there instead of making a *BSD derived libc with Linux system calls and some Android specific functionality.