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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by jcelerier on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:51PM (#16586770)
> Well... the declaration you cited resolves down to a pointer to a wide integer

With a boatload of associated semantics, quite a bunch bein in practice compiler-dependent (looking at you, MSVC volatile).

And a "protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor" does not mean anything -- or at least any code that compiles.

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by saagarjha on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:08PM (#16587848)
> With a boatload of associated semantics, quite a bunch bein in practice compiler-dependent (looking at you, MSVC volatile).

Which is not part of C. Your argument that "C is complicated" doesn't work if you cite an egregious misuse of nonstandard extensions.

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by 3chelon on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:12PM (#16622039)
Forgive my ignorance here, I'm genuinely intrigued: what's so special about MSVC's volatile as opposed to the regular volatile keyword?
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