The diet libc is a c library that is optimized for small size. it can be used to create small statically linked binaries for linux on alpha, arm, ia64, mips, mipsel, ppc, parisc, sparc and x86.

the diet libc also supports dynamic linking, currently on the arm and i386 architectures only. this package provides the shared libraries.

see http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/ for more information.