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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: constexpr keyword is unnecessary Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:20:38 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <877ca5q84u.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87iktmpr2f.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87bjzdp4il.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:20:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c770b3133348e91147f2be2370fb578a"; logging-data="1165633"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vu0mTZwEDgHvIgjSW5FkbEr47vroWiho=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VEuxlD9dXkHr4ovugJ4cPXFmRTo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <87bjzdp4il.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Bytes: 2239 On 10/21/2024 1:47 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > David Brown 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. > > [...] >