On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:40 PM Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:24:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the > > split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, > > I have forked Apple's original »hfs« package on Github [1]. > > > > Feel free to start contributing. It's currently work-in-progress as > > »fsck_hfs« does not compile yet and the code needs further clean-up > > which I will be doing later this week. > > > > > [1] https://github.com/glaubitz/hfs/tree/linux > > I had a poke at it, dealt with a couple of compile issues, then > encountered Blocks and went WTF did Apple invent here? I don't even > understand the description of their proprietary extension to C/C++/ObjC.
Blocks are like C++ lamda's. ObjC folks like to use them to ensure cleanup in a function, like releasing a handle or free'ing memory. > I had never seen code with ^ prefixed to things in this way and since I > don't understand what Blocks are supposed to accomplish I have no idea > how to remove them from the code. Jeff
