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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
| commit | b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a (patch) | |
| tree | 27c4db3c62aaea065b053e43c39b2ba44c04a05f /appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | |
| parent | 46f5461af92bc70c62bbb92895032b930954d835 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index dace3b634..d456652aa 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -1,23 +1,18 @@ <sect2> <title>Contents</title> -<para> -The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library. -</para> +<para>The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library.</para> </sect2> <sect2><title>Description</title> -<para> -The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs. +<para>The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs. This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every single task. The most common things like writing a string to the screen -are already present and at the disposal of the programmer. -</para> +are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.</para> -<para> -The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavors: +<para>The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavors: dynamic ones and static ones. In short when a program uses a static C library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not @@ -25,8 +20,7 @@ contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. The documentation that comes with the C Library describes this in more -detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two lines. -</para> +detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two lines.</para> </sect2> |