Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:40 PM Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@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
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