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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: constexpr keyword is unnecessary
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:20:38 -0700
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On 10/21/2024 1:47 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> [...]
>> MS is in a somewhat different position than other C compiler
>> vendors. They decided - for various reasons - not to support C99 other
>> than parts that had direct correspondence with C++ features.  Without
>> having followed any of the proceedings, I suspect the reason VLAs are
>> optional in C23 is because MS wants to avoid adding more than they
>> have to before being able to jump to (approximate) C23 conformance.
>> "constexpr" will be relatively easy for them, as they have it in C++
>> already.
> 
> Yes, Microsoft pretty much skipped over C99, but if I recall correctly
> their current C compiler has reasonably good support for C11.

Last time I checked it did not have full support for C11 threads.


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