Why is it called uClibc?
The letter ‘u’ is short for µ (the greek letter “mu”). µ is commonly used as the abbreviation for the word “micro”. The capital “C” is short for “controller”. So the name uClibc is sortof an abbreviation for “the microcontroller C library”. For simplicity, uClibc is pronounced “yew-see-lib-see”. The name is partly historical, since uClibc was originally created to support µClinux, a port of Linux for MMU-less microcontrollers such as the Dragonball, Coldfire, and ARM7TDMI. These days, uClibc also works just fine on normal Linux systems (such as i386, ARM, and PowerPC), but we couldn’t think of a better name.
