Comparing system calls and C libraries

use the -c strace option for     program, you should get different。

The major reasons to use raw Linux system calls are as follows:

❑ It creates the smallest size code possible because no external libraries need to be linked into the
programs.

❑ It creates the fastest possible code, again because no external libraries are linked into the programs.

❑ Linked executable files are independent of any external library code.

The major reasons for using C library functions in assembly language programs are as follows:

❑ The C libraries contain many functions that would require major assembly language code to
emulate (such as the ASCII-to-integer or floating-point data type conversions).

❑ The C libraries are portable between operating systems (such as compiling programs on FreeBSD
running on the Intel platform as well as Linux systems).

❑ C library functions can utilize shared libraries between programs, reducing memory requirements.