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diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index 75b630f10..8d96ec86d 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -137,20 +137,20 @@ segfaults.</para></sect4> programs in Linux.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p</title> -<para>These files constitute the main C library. The C Library is a +<para>These files constitute the main C library. 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> -<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 +<para>The C library (actually almost every library) comes in two flavors: +a dynamic and a static one. In short, when a program uses a static C +library, the code from the C library is copied into the executable file. +When a program uses a dynamic library, the executable will not 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 +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></sect4> |