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