Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by rseacord on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:34AM (#22867220)

It has not. The C Committee has taken two votes on this, and in each case, the committee has been equally divided. Without a consensus to change the standard, the status quo wins.

Sounds like you don't care for Annex K. What don't you like about it?

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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by loeg on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:41PM (#22868119)

I think my complaints are summed up nicely in some of your coauthors' report:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm

(1) runtime constraint handler callbacks are a terrible API.

(2) The additional boilerplate doesn't buy us anything — the user can still specify the wrong size.

(3) The Annex invents a feature out of whole cloth, rather than standardizing existing practices. There are no performant real-world implementations that anyone uses. Microsoft's similar functionality is non-standard.

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