Add support for alternative C libraries

[steveklabnik]

Issue by brson
Friday Jun 21, 2013 at 21:14 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#7283

This issue was labelled with: A-an-interesting-project, A-runtime, I-wishlist in the Rust repository

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Makes snapshots more compatible. Required for microcontroller Rust. musl is the favorite.

[aidanhs]

Experimental musl support added in rust-lang/rust#24777

[alexcrichton]

It was indeed! We can continue to add support for other C libraries, but we will likely not actively pursue many beyond just one, so I'm going to close this.

[carlpaten]

Please support Newlib ;_;