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- <sect2>
- <title>Contents</title>
- <para>The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library.</para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Description</title>
- <para>The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs.
- This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every
- single task. The most common things like writing a string to the screen
- are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.</para>
- <para>The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavors:
- dynamic ones and static ones. In short when a program uses a static C
- library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable
- file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not
- contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads
- the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This
- means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. The
- documentation that comes with the C Library describes this in more
- detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two lines.</para>
- </sect2>
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