zig libc

Devlog This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. Also available as an RSS feed. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. January 31, 2026 zig libc Author: Andrew KelleyOver the past month or so, several enterprising contributors have taken an interest in the zig libc subproject. The idea here is to incrementally delete redundant code, by providing libc functions as Zig standard library wrappers rather than as vendored C source files. In many cases, these functions are one-to-one mappings, such as memcpy or atan2, or trivially wrap a generic function, like strnlen:fn strnlen(str: [*:0]const c_char, max: usize) callconv(.c) usize { return std.mem.findScalar(u8, @ptrCast(str[0..max]), 0) orelse…

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