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<concept id="GUID-E2DE2C6F-E071-5E88-96F1-D71DDED84609" xml:lang="en"><title>Generic Open
Libraries</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>Generic Open Libraries is a collection of open source libraries that are
ported to the Symbian platform. These libraries enable Symbian Developers
to easily port POSIX-based applications onto the Symbian platform. </p>
<p><b>Important:</b> C Standard Library is planned to be deprecated soon.
It is recommended that you use the much more compliant and complete <xref href="GUID-D79380CF-22B5-5865-9366-44118E8ECA2E.dita">Open Environment Core (P.I.P.S.)</xref> libraries
instead.</p>
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