There are two libc libraries commonly used with uClinux. uC-libc and uClibc. They are quite different despite their similar names. Here is a quick overview of how they are different.
uC-libc is the original library for uClinux. It was based on sources from the Linux-8086 C library which was part of the ELKs project with m68000 support added by Jeff Dionne and Kenneth Albanowski. It is a fairly complete libc implementation, however, some of the API's are a little non-standard and quite a few common libc routines are not present. Currently it has stable support for m68000, ColdFire and ARM (Non-MMU) architectures. It was primary design goal is to be small and light weight. It does try to conform to any standards, although its API tries to be compatible with most libcs, it is not always exactly the same.
The uClinux distribution provides an environment that can compile using either uC-libc or uClibc depending on your needs. For m68000 and Coldfire platforms it is generally better to chose uC-libc as it supports shared libraries and is the most commonly used libc for these CPUs. uClibc also works quite well with almost all platforms supported by the distribution. Which libc you choose to use will be decided by your requirements
