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GNU C library for some time. However, the version we are using is not optimized for SMP and multithreading.
We plan to eventually replace it with another allocator.
 
Finally, the {\tt pci} userspace task is using the {\tt libpci} library. The
library was simplified and ported to HelenOS. Even though filesystem
calls were removed from the library, it still heavily depends on {\tt libc}.
By porting {\tt libpci} to HelenOS, we demonstrated that applications and libraries
are, given enough effort, portable to HelenOS.
 
\section{Build tools}
Assembler, linker and compiler are by all means the very focal point of attention
of all operating system projects. Quality of these tools influences