Differences from the default C library

Microlib is not compliant with the ISO C library standard. Some ISO features are not supported and others have less functionality.

Microlib is not compliant with the IEEE 754 standard for binary floating point arithmetic.

Microlib is highly optimized for small code size.

Locales are not configurable. The default C locale is the only one available.

main() must not be declared to take arguments and must not return.

stdio is not supported except for unbuffered stdin, stdout and stderr.

Microlib provides limited support for C99 functions.

Microlib does not support operating system functions.

Microlib does not support position-independent code.

Microlib does not provide mutex locks to guard against code that is not thread safe.

Microlib does not support wide characters or multibyte strings.

Microlib does not support selectable one or two region memory models as stdlib does. Microlib provides only the two region memory model with separate stack and heap regions.

Microlib can sensibly be used with either --fpmode=std or --fpmode=fast.