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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 16:19:49 +0200
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On 23/05/2024 18:43, Keith Thompson wrote:
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>> I suspect that ones like 'embed' have been derived from C++ which
>> always likes to make things too wide-ranging and much harder to use
>> and implement than necessary.
> 
> No, C++ doesn't have #embed.  (If it did, many C compilers would already
> have it, since C and C++ commonly share the preprocessor
> implementation.)
> 

C++ has proposals for both #embed and std::embed<>, but AFAIK these are 
not yet accepted.  I expect #embed to make it (since the big tools will 
support it for C anyway).  std::embed<> is more powerful but has 
additional complications.