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		yjftsjthsd-h 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation I don't know how it's going on the nixpkgs side, but my impression from Alpine is that it's pretty normal to carry some patches for any ABI/platform that isn't GNU.

mbrock 46 days ago [–]

Yep, you can look around in Nixpkgs and see a bunch of conditionally applied patches based on target platform.

My Fil-C flake already includes like 50 different patches extracted from the upstream port catalogue!

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