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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 4 | <para>
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| 5 | The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library.
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| 6 | </para>
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| 8 | </sect2>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 | <para>
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| 13 | The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs.
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| 14 | This way a programmer doens't need to create his own functions for every
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| 15 | single task. The most common things like writing a string to your screen
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| 16 | are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.
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| 19 | <para>
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| 20 | The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavours:
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| 21 | dynamic ones and static ones. In short when a program uses a static C
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| 22 | library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable
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| 23 | file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not
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| 24 | contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads
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| 25 | the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This
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| 26 | means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. If you don't
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| 27 | understand this concept, you better read the documentation that comes
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| 28 | with the C Library as it is too complicated to explain here in one or
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| 30 | </para>
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