Hello LLVM Developers,
Within Google, we have a growing range of needs that existing libc
implementations don’t quite address. This is pushing us to start working on
a new libc implementation.
It would be convenient for LLVM to bundle libc. I’ve been shipping a subset of musl with LLVM for a while now and based on passing comment at conferences suspect that to be common. The codebase is coherent and adherence to the spec is good.
If we adopt that, even by forking it, then we’d have a solid, multiarch libc with dynamic linking support within a day or so. A bit longer to set up fuzz testing.
I’d be interested to know how that fails to meet the internal requirements at Google, especially in such a way that couldn’t be managed as a downstream fork.
Kind regards,
Jon