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