Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
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Removed

[...]

7) static_assert is not provided as a macro defined in <assert.h>
(becomes a keyword)
8) thread_local is not provided as a macro defined in <threads.h>
(becomes a keyword)
>

[...]

7) bad. Breaks existing code for weak reason
8) bad. Breaks existing code for weak reason

In pre-C23, _Static_assert and _Thread_local are keywords, and
static_assert and thread_local are macros that expand to those keywords.

In C23, _Static_assert, _Thread_local, static_assert, and thread_local
are all keywords.  Code that simply uses the old ugly keywords would not
break.

Code that does something like "#ifdef static_assert".  I suppose the
headers could have retained the old macro definitions.

    #define static_assert static_assert
    #define thread_local thread_local

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */