Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 23/05/2024 18:43, Keith Thompson wrote:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]

I suspect that ones like 'embed' have been derived from C++ which
always likes to make things too wide-ranging and much harder to use
and implement than necessary.

 No, C++ doesn't have #embed.  (If it did, many C compilers would already
have it, since C and C++ commonly share the preprocessor
implementation.)
 

C++ has proposals for both #embed and std::embed<>, but AFAIK these are not yet accepted.  I expect #embed to make it (since the big tools will support it for C anyway).  std::embed<> is more powerful but has additional complications.