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by jedisct1 4275 days ago
Any other C library is more readable than glibc. Even on Linux, the Musl C library is far far far more readable.

The OpenBSD C library is the one I usually look at when I want to understand how a specific function works. It doesn't have insane optimizations or bloat like glibc, but it's clean and portable.

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The only thing you can begin to understand by reading glibc is the terrible genius of Ulrich Drepper.