Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Ray Hurst wrote:

> It was my understanding that if I write a C program and compiled it with
> gcc that gcc used newlib for all of the stdlib functions including
> malloc, realloc and free.

Gcc doesn't have any choice in the matter.  All it knows is that there's
a C library on the system, that's it.  It doesn't know nor care where or
how the C library is implemented.

In the case of Cygwin, the C library is provided by Cygwin, in the form
of cygwin1.dll.  Cygwin relies on newlib to implement some things, but
malloc is not one of them.

Brian

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