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Hi! On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:14:58 +0200, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote: > This may seem trivial, but there's various places where I end up > writing about the GNU C Library project, and a question that > constantly niggles is this: what is the / is there an agreed canonical > short for name for the project and the library? > > That is, which of the following is considered to be correct: > glibc That's the one, for all I know. > GLIBC > Glibc (seems little used) > ? > > I've usually settled on the first, and it seems to be the most common. > However, http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/HomePage says: > > The official and canonical GLIBC website is > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ > > And on that page, "GLIBC" is used. Except, not throughout the page > (there is also "glibc" on that page), and not at all on the related > page http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/development.html. On the wiki, > "glibc" seems by far predominant. Other uses apart from glibc should be corrected. GrÃÃe, Thomas
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