glibc
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. It is a wrapper around the system calls of the Linux kernel 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.
| Original author(s) | Roland McGrath |
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| Developer(s) | GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper |
| Initial release | 1987 |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Runtime library |
| License | 2001: LGPL-2.1-or-later 1992: LGPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
glibc is free software released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system, as well as many systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more.