Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On 2025-04-03, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 4/2/25 14:02, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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When a thing exists, the job of the standard is to standardize what
exists, and not invent some caricature of it.

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In the process of standardization, the committee is supposed to exercise
it's judgement, and if that judgement says that there's a better way to
do something than the way for with there is existing practice, they have
an obligation to correct the design of that feature accordingly.

Can you name one thing that was designed better by ISO C, for which
a GCC extension was prior art?

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