Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 5/23/2024 2:25 PM, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 22.05.2024 um 18:55 schrieb David Brown:

In an attempt to bring some topicality to the group, has anyone started using, or considering, C23 ?  There's quite a lot of change in it, especially compared to the minor changes in C17.
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<https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3220.pdf>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)>
<https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23>
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I like that it tidies up a lot of old stuff - it is neater to have things like "bool", "static_assert", etc., as part of the language rather than needing a half-dozen includes for such basic stuff.
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I like that it standardises a several useful extensions that have been in gcc and clang (and possibly other compilers) for many years.
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I'm not sure it will make a big difference to my own programming - when I want "typeof" or "chk_add()", I already use them in gcc.  But for people restricted to standard C, there's more new to enjoy.  And I prefer to use standard syntax when possible.
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"constexpr" is something I think I will find helpful, in at least some circumstances.
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 I ask myself what the point is in further developing a language
like this that can actually no longer be saved.

There is way more code written in C than C++.  For instance, just about all real time systems such as device and engine management are written in C.
One of my friends writes the device code for a NAS manufacturer.  The code starts off with:
    while (1)
    {
       ...  a bunch of code
    }
Lynn