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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 22:58:20 -0700
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On 4/8/2025 3:34 PM, bart wrote:
> On 08/04/2025 22:46, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> 
>>> Clearly, they're not quite as fully supported as short, int etc; they
>>> are usually just aliases. But that needn't stop them being shown on
>>> such a chart.
>>
>> Apparently the author of the chart chose to include types that are
>> defined by the core language, not by the library.
> 
> So here you're finally admitteding they are a different rank.
> 
>> I think that was a
>> perfectly valid choice.  Adding all the types specified in the library
>> would make the chart far too big and not much more informative.
> 
> So there is a place for 'extended integer types', '_Bitint', 
> '_Decimal128' and 'long double _Complex', which people could spend years 
> coding in C and never use

I mainly use C++, however in C I use complex all the time.

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