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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 06:21:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-03, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On 4/2/25 14:02, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> ...
>> When a thing exists, the job of the standard is to standardize what
>> exists, and not invent some caricature of it.
>
> In the process of standardization, the committee is supposed to exercise
> it's judgement, and if that judgement says that there's a better way to
> do something than the way for with there is existing practice, they have
> an obligation to correct the design of that feature accordingly.

Can you name one thing that was designed better by ISO C, for which
a GCC extension was prior art?

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