Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol

Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by pjmlp on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:57AM (#22264840)

C is deprecated on Windows, where the focus is now C++ and .NET, old style C code has been made compatibile with C89's C++ subset.

Even the new Universal C runtime is written in C++ using extern "C".

On Android, C is reserved for the Linux kernel and "legacy drivers" (pre-Treble), everything else is C++ and Java/Kotlin.

On Apple OSes, C is left for the UNIX style compatibility layer, everything else is a mix of Objective-C, Swift and C++.

By the way it is either C or C++, not C/C++.

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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by DagAgren on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:14AM (#22264924)

VS now ships clang, so that should improve support for C considerably.

Objective-C is C, with extensions. Swift interoperates with C, not C++.

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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by pjmlp on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:28AM (#22264998)

It ships clang, because that is Microsoft's answer to C support on Windows, for those that still want to use C.

Visual C++ focus is naturally C++.

C with extensions, by definition, is not C, rather something else.

Swift interoperates with Objective-C, thus C interoperability comes for free.

IO Kit, DriverKit, Metal Shaders, LLVM make all use of C++.

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