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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by guerrilla on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:52PM (#26349639)
That would be nice. You hit on the other hell with C strings: modern encodings where wchar_t and mb* are useless and replacements essentially don't exist yet with char8_t, char32_t etc. Then there's the locale chaotic nonsense [1]. A new libc starting fresh would be nice.

1. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by matheusmoreira on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:01AM (#26354127)
> A new libc starting fresh would be nice.

Agreed. I want to make something like this on top of Linux one day. I discarded the entire libc and started from scratch with freestanding C and nothing but the Linux system call interface. Turns out the Linux system call interface is so much nicer.

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux/blob/master/examp...

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