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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> |