Re: List available library (user space) functions with descriptions.

dspfun wrote:
There must be some common/straightforward way to get a description of
the (hundreds of) libraries available in Linux systems.If there is no
such straightforward way, what is the reason for this? Seems very
strange to me.

The reason is that every library comes from different authors. There's no single repository for their information.

(It's like that for a lot of things in the "real world" too. Like cookbooks. Why are there so many of them? Why isn't there a single reference book for all recipes? If I want to make chocolate chip cookies, where do I find a comprehensive list of all available chocolate chip cookie recipes? There isn't one.)

Given your handle of "dspfun", I can't help but wonder if you're coming from a DSP background, where it's more common for the DSP chip (or board) vendor to provide all of the development tools, all of the libraries, and comprehensive documentation for them. It's not like that in the general-purpose computing world. Tools and libraries come from many different sources and each of those sources will have their own way of documenting things.

The downside to the wide array of available libraries is the widely scattered documentation.

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