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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by pjmlp on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:41PM (#17517423)
Well, many embedded developers will never move beyond C89 unless forced to do so.

Meanwhile C22 work is ongoing.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by llukas on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:26PM (#17519131)
> Well, many embedded compilers will never move beyond C89 unless vendor is forced to do so.

FTFY

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by pjmlp on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:08AM (#17520842)
Not really, many of those developers do have C99 compilers with partial C11 support at their disposal.

There are almost no vendors left offering C89 only compilers.

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