glibc and the Linux libc fork

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > fork were GNU's cathedral-like development style at that time (see
   > also the egcs fork) combined with the focus on the Hurd instead of

   FWIW, glibc implements large parts of the Hurd and thus one should
   not wondper that it is quite complex.

The Hurd parts are quite simple, and few, if one compares to just the
ELF loader.