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Re:Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data struc... by pjmlp on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:41AM (#31270669)
You can use the same FFI as K&R C, write a couple of Assembly helpers.
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Re:Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data struc... by eatonphil on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:47AM (#31273277)
Any links to help me understand what you mean about the K&R C FFI? (Not easy to google for)

Possibly related, building against foreign objects and manually setting up the FFI call: https://words.filippo.io/rustgo/.

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Re:Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data struc... by pjmlp on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:28AM (#31273790)
Easy, K&R C was rather limited, inline Assembly wasn't yet a common extension, rather you would use the external assembler, and link both object files together.

What was good for C while it was gaining adoption, surely is good enough for Go.

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Re:Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data struc... by eatonphil on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:30AM (#31273822)
Gotcha, that is along the same lines as the link I shared.
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Re:Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data struc... by pjmlp on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:35AM (#31273890)
For example,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C

https://github.com/trcwm/smallc_v1

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