Re: two vulns in uClibc-0.9.33.2

[Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat com>]

On 06/17/2017 04:02 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Uclibc is a C library like GNU libc.  Why would a JS engine not use it?

Javascript has 16-bit strings, like Java, Windows, and some UNIX
variants.  GNU/Linux C libraries typically offer only 8-bit (multi-byte)
or 32-bit (wchar_t) strings, so they are a poor match.

Florian