Glibc / GNU Toolchain Dropping Google NaCl Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Glibc / GNU Toolchain Dropping Google NaCl Support

Support for Google's Native Client (NaCl) has been removed from mainline glibc with the GNU toolchain no longer really being maintained or used for compiling code targeting this Chrome-supported sandboxed code execution environment...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Glibc-Dropping-NaCl

[L_A_G]

I hope I'm not the only one who read "NaCl" and immediately thought of sodium chloride, i.e table salt.

[nanonyme]

I hope I'm not the only one who read "NaCl" and immediately thought of sodium chloride, i.e table salt.

I thought that was the entire point of the name

[FireBurn]

Take it with a pinch of salt

[GreatEmerald]

I thought that was the entire point of the name

Yeap, it's the salt to the PPAPI.

[nanonyme]

Pepper, salt, what's next, chili?

[ldo17]

The five kinds of tastebuds are sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami.

So what’s left that hasn’t been used yet?

[cj.wijtmans]

good. why the hell should this be in glibc anyway.

[carewolf]

good. why the hell should this be in glibc anyway.

To build binaries for ChromeOS.

[cj.wijtmans]

To build binaries for ChromeOS.

they can patch it in themselves.