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On 12/07/2024 19:13, bart wrote:
> On 12/07/2024 13:36, David Brown wrote:
> 
>> One person's private sort-of-C compiler is of no more relevance to the 
>> C community than one person's private language.  You are welcome to 
>> make as many non-conforming changes to your own tools as you like, but 
>> they do not make a difference to C.  No one else will ever use your 
>> tool, so no one else will ever care about any incompatible changes you 
>> make to it.  If /you/ are happier having such changes in your tools, 
>> then that is great for you.
> 
> Jesus, you just can't resist putting the boot in at every opportunity 
> and being incredibly patronising, can you?
> 
> I made the tweak to see how hard it would be to detect value-arrays 
> declared in parameter list (it was very easy), and what the consequences 
> would be on existing code (significant).
> 
> The example I posted showed a type (const char* x[]) where there was no 
> advantage to having that value array notation. Using 'const char**' 
> would be a more accurate description of the actual parameter type.

Incidentally if sizeof(x) is used, gcc will about it if using 'char* 
x[]', and not with 'char** x'.

I wonder why, since after all EVERYBODY who uses C understands what they 
are doing.