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   dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:00:23 JST dilbert 1
   I've spent all day trying to make this shit work and I'm pretty sure that Zig is not worth it. It's been beyond horrible trying to interface with C code. It's almost certainly my own limited knowledge, but I wouldn't have to do any of this shit in C. Before you pat yourself on the back for liking C, it's because C doesn't check anything. The reverse is true with Zig, I cannot get the son of a bitch to just let me use the result in the way I want when I know what it is.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:01:48 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @sun someone should plot the '% of programmer time spent interfacing languages over time'. i bet it's increasing /decade
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:05:49 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault I have a malloc function that returns ?opaqueany type but I need to pass the result into a struct that gets passed into a C function; and it keeps complaining that nothing mutates that variable. the solution is apparently to cast it but nothing I do works
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     segfault (segfault@class.lunanova.dev)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:05:51 JST segfault

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     @sun what issue are you having exactly?
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:06:46 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault the reason I am using malloc instead of a zig allocator is that 1. the c library calls malloc itself so I need to link to it anyway and 2. I don't want to write a full zig allocator that has malloc. this is an embedded device so I don't have stdlb I have a stub version of malloc that will probably kill me later
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:07:27 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault basically I just wanted sound on this thing but to get sound I have to implement malloc so it's quickly becoming not worth it
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:08:32 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault I don't have stdlib so not sure but the docs didn't mention a c allocator when I intrnet searched it
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     segfault (segfault@class.lunanova.dev)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:08:34 JST segfault

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     @sun does std.heap.c_allocator not work?
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:10:08 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault requires libc but I have a fake-ish malloc linked already so maybe it will just work
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:11:26 JST dilbert 1

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     @segfault I spent all day trying to fix other issues so I'll take a fresh look at it tomorrow morning
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     segfault (segfault@class.lunanova.dev)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:11:28 JST segfault

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     @sun std.heap.c_allocator uses malloc from I see from a glance.
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     segfault (segfault@class.lunanova.dev)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 10:15:30 JST segfault

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     @sun couldn't you compile for the arch on your system and link it to libc there. zig statically links everything. I've done something like that compiling for a raspberry pi. I'm not too sure how your workflow is looking like. keep us posted! :oh_my_god_i_miss_my_kettle_i_mean_really_have_you_seen_this_existence_affirming_smile_that_tells_you_everything_will_be_okay:
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