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Subject: [Bug c/78352] GCC lacks support for the Apple "blocks" extension to
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--- Comment #14 from Fabian Groffen <grobian at gentoo dot org> ---
(In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #13)
> If we could get in touch with an actual lawyer to review which laws
> specifically are getting in the way here, that could be helpful. I won my
> election to the New Hampshire State Legislature so if there's any
> legislation I could pass to make it legal to apply those patches here in =
NH,
> I'd love to know how to write it.

FWIW: if Iain wrote a new patch, then we don't need Apple's original work w=
hich
from my experience, frankly is messy.  There's lots of stuff in there
intertwined, so going by a specification e.g. Clang's
(https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BlockLanguageSpec.html) is probably the best w=
ay
forward in any case.=