Shawn Walker-Salas

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Principal Software Engineer / Windows Developer @Microsoft. Hobbyist Game Developer. Former Solaris Principal Developer. My words are my own and not those of any affiliate or employer. He/him/they/them.

@forrestthewoods we will see if it remains optimal for scenarios like that given this issue raised after that post:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

make the main zig executable no longer depend on LLVM, LLD, and Clang libraries · Issue #16270 · ziglang/zig

This issue is to fully eliminate LLVM, Clang, and LLD libraries from the Zig project. The remaining ties to these projects are as follows: #8726 LLVM #13265 C backend - 1742/1792 tests passing (97%...

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@jplebreton @Doomed_Daniel Empathy is a core engineering value; security without accounting for accessibility just leads to even more insecure solutions to workaround incomplete designs. This is disappointing.
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@TomF @Doomed_Daniel @pervognsen binary literal constant prefixes are tentatively part of C23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)
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@pervognsen @regehr I will take this chance to shamelessly plug my former colleagues blogs: http://www.linker-aliens.org/

The Solaris Docs for the linker are also a great reference:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/solaris/oracle-solaris/11.4/linkers-libraries/object-file-format.html

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@pervognsen @lritter @rich I know exactly which one this is and I completely agree; the introduction of that was the one thing that nearly ruined it for me until I figured out the solution
@lritter @rich personally, it took me a while to get used to it but once I did it was quite a fun ride.