On Nov 24, 2013, at 5:54 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 23 Nov 2013, at 22:11, Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I have particular interest in -fwritable-strings >> and the block support, mostly with the idea of making our gcc >> somewhat more compatible to clang. > > I would absolutely love to see our GCC have blocks support. It would be very > nice to be able to use blocks in libc. > > I have some macros that allow code to call blocks even when compiled with a > compiler that doesn't support them, but having native blocks support would be > fantastic. It's worth noting that Apple's libc includes a few _b variants of > standard library functions: > > scandir_b > err_set_exit_b > fts_open_b > glob_b > atexit_b > bsearch_b > heapsort_b > mergesort_b > psort_b > qsort_b > > These all do the same as their non-_b-suffixed equivalents, but take a block > as an argument instead of a function pointer. Adding them has been on my > todo list for a while, and this would give me a strong incentive to do so...
Cool! Any chance clang supports this Apple extension? :) Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
