Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

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, but not for the equivalents of these everyday types:
     i8 i16 i32 i64
     u8 u16 u32 u64
which are the core integer types of languages like C#, D, Go, Rust, Zig, Java (signed only), Nim and Odin.
To me it is astounding that such fundamental machine types (and C is one of the those closest to hardware) should be omitted from such a diagram.
But clearly you have a different view even after insisting they are an fully integrated part of the language.

If you don't like it, make your own chart.

Actually I can't quite see the purpose of this chart, why it has to be so complicated (even with bits missing) or who it is for.