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<h1>Baselibc<a class="headerlink" href="#baselibc" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Baselibc is a very simple libc for embedded systems geared primarily for
32-bit microcontrollers in the 10-100kB memory range. The library of
basic system calls and facilities compiles to less than 5kB total on
Cortex-M3, and much less if some functions aren’t used.</p>
<p>The code is based on klibc and tinyprintf modules, and licensed under
the BSD license.</p>
<p>Baselibc comes from <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PetteriAimonen/Baselibc.git">https://github.com/PetteriAimonen/Baselibc.git</a></p>
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<h2>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Mynewt OS can utilize libc which comes with compiler (e.g. newlib
bundled with some binary distributions of arm-none-eabi-gcc). However,
you may choose to replace the libc with baselibc for a reduced image
size. Baselibc optimizes for size rather than performance, which is
usually a more important goal in embedded environments.</p>
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<h2>How to switch to baselibc<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-switch-to-baselibc" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In order to switch from using libc to using baselibc you have to add the
baselibc pkg as a dependency in the project pkg. Specifying this
dependency ensures that the linker first looks for the functions in
baselibc before falling back to libc while creating the executable. For
example, project <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">boot</span></code> uses baselibc. Its project description file
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">boot.yml</span></code> looks like the following:</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">no-highlight</span>&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">project.name:</span> <span class="pre">boot</span>&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">project.identities:</span> <span class="pre">bootloader</span>&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">project.pkgs:</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/os</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/bootutil</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/nffs</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/console/stub</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/util</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">libs/baselibc</span></code></p>
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<h2>List of Functions<a class="headerlink" href="#list-of-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Documentation for libc functions is available from multiple places. One
example are the on-line manual pages at
<a class="reference external" href="#https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi">https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi</a>.</p>
<p>baselibc supports most libc functionality; malloc(), printf-family,
string handling, and conversion routines.</p>
<p>There is some functionality which is not available, e.g. support for
floating point numbers, and limited support for ‘long long’.</p>
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