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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 15:26:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:59:45 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>On 02/04/2025 16:05, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> I suspect the people who are happy with C never have any correspondence with
>> anyone from the committee so they get an entirely biased sample. Just like
>> its usually only people who had a bad experience that fill in "How did we do"
>
>> surveys.
>
>And I suspect that you haven't a clue who the C standards committee talk 
>to - and who those people in turn have asked.

By imference you do - so who are they?

>11. nullptr for clarity and safety.

Never understood that in C++ never mind C. NULL has worked fine for 50 years.

>12. Some improvements to variadic macros.

Might be useful. Would be nice to pass the "..." args directly through to lower
level functions without having to convert them to a va_list first.

>18. "unreachable()" is now standard.

Googled it - don't see the point. More syntatic noise.

>19. printf (and friends) support for things like "%w32i" as the format 
>specifier for int32_t, so that we no longer need the ugly PRIi32 style 
>of macro for portable code with fixed-size types.

If you do a lot of cross platform code might be useful.

To be honest you can do most of you posted already - just compile C with a C++
compiler. Seems a case of catch up me-too.