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0 pointszeveb9y ago0 comments

But if it's a C library then there are memory issues, buffer overflows, undefined behaviour — everything that's bad about C.

The right thing IMHO would be to use pipes & stdin/stdout/stderr, but with a well-defined machine interface.

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pjmlp9y ago

Agreed, which is why C should be treated as the "portable macro assembler" it is and just like Assembly, those libraries should be wrapped in higher level languages.

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