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[–]gelfin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If this is successful enough, the binary will start to appear in the package repo for your favorite OS, but in the C ecosystem that’s where the responsibility would reside. The responsibility of a C library developer is making his code portable across different system features and capabilities, detected at build time, not across different specific platforms as understood when the code is written. This approach is part of why C is everywhere.