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By "some stupid thing to their headers" are you referring to nullability annotations? I'm not sure what else Apple would have added to pure C headers (as opposed to obj-c) any time in the past few years.

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I wanted my compiler to be able to compile a hello world. Something which would be trivial in any language, though of course not C. In C the first line of hello world is "#include<stdio.h>". No doubt known to you, that file is a veritable quagmire of incomprehensible C constructions, specific to each operating system. So I spent a few too many nights getting my compiler to get any possible C declaration known to mankind into its symboltables, just so I could get it to the code generator phase and emit all of three or so instructions.

I forgot what the change was, and I can't find the commit that fixed it, as it seems active development on the library has resumed.

It was possibly even a Apple added their blocks extension to C and Obj-C, I remember this verifying some issues for Haskell tool which parsed C.

That was many years ago. I was assuming tinco was referring to something more recent. Besides, AFAIK, every usage of blocks in Apple's headers is guarded by an #if check to make sure blocks are supported, so compilers that don't support blocks won't even see them.

Blocks, maybe? Not standardized but it's cross platform and compiler.

I would like to know, too.

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