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   ThePhD (thephd@pony.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 21:19:04 JST ThePhD

   Clearly I haven't gotten enough of my 🍑 kicked by the standards process. So, here we go, doing Big Work all over again. The first of many larger changes for C that should've been done 25 years ago, since the days of __try/__finally.

   Let's get it done. ⤵

   The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time | Björkus Dorkus | The Pasture | https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its-time-go-go-go

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 21:38:40 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @thephd The removal of the if checks is not necessary, but it should be noted free is one of the very, VERY few functions in the C standard library that’s explicitly documented to be a no-op with a null pointer input

     Oh wow, today I learned.

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     anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 21:45:16 JST anna

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     @thephd okay time to actually finish the gcc patch (up to the spec this time!) and send it up!
     
     (great article!)
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