ELIX?

[Richard Campbell-9]

Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4 defines and guards in newlib)?

Thanks,

-Richard Campbell.

[Morgan Gangwere]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@...> wrote:
> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4 defines and guards in newlib)?

It vaeugly appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?



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Morgan gangwere

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[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@...> wrote:
>>Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>defines and guards in newlib)?
>
>It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?

IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
vanishing with a *poof*.

cgf

[Dave Korn-6]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@...> wrote:
>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
>
> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
> vanishing with a *poof*.

  Not /entirely/ vanished:

       http://sourceware.org/elix/

... but not updated in a looong time.

    cheers,
      DaveK

[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:

>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@...> wrote:
>>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
>>
>> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
>> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
>> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
>> vanishing with a *poof*.
>
>  Not /entirely/ vanished:
>
>       http://sourceware.org/elix/
>
>... but not updated in a looong time.

Well, no.  It obviously didn't entirely vanish or people wouldn't be
asking why it was in newlib.

I asked Jeff Johnston if I could delete it from newlib once and he
told me that it still had some use.  I don't remember what that was
though.

cgf

[Dave Korn-6]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo!> wrote:
>>>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>>>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>>>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
>>> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
>>> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
>>> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
>>> vanishing with a *poof*.
>>  Not /entirely/ vanished:
>>
>>       http://sourceware.org/elix/
>>
>> ... but not updated in a looong time.
>
> Well, no.  It obviously didn't entirely vanish or people wouldn't be
> asking why it was in newlib.
>
> I asked Jeff Johnston if I could delete it from newlib once and he
> told me that it still had some use.  I don't remember what that was
> though.

  Yeh, I remember that thread.  I never knew there was a homepage and a spec
document kicking around though.

    cheers,
      DaveK