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> in a C/C++ code base

It's like "in a Zodiac boat / aircraft carrier navy". This customary putting C and C++ into the same bucket is as amusing as it is unproductive.

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Apparently the old mold version had a couple of plain C source files in the source tree (both vendored 3rd party libs but also in the 'regular' source code), so technically C/C++ is correct in this case ...and looks like the Rust version also has some (very minimal) C code left (looks like mostly varargs stuff, I guess Rust doesn't have a concept of varargs?), so it could be called a C/Rust project ;)

https://github.com/rui314/mold/tree/main/c

Unfortunately too many folks still do C style programming in C++.

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