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		justincormack on May 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Integrating Zig and SwiftUI That is somewhat conflating the calling convention and the runtime - C really doesn't have much that you can call a runtime outside the calling convention, although some libraries (eg pthreads say) have a little runtime which matters in practise for integrations, but these are libraries not parts of the language itself.

aidenn0 on May 28, 2023 [–]

malloc and free are part of what I would consider a runtime. As are the file objects opened for standard I/O.

It's a very small runtime, but all the code before main is properly runtime initiation

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