Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++
by forrestthewoods on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:32PM
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Implementing this has the language level has proven to be a total disaster.
The number of cases where it’s important to use different types on different architectures exists, but is very small.
That’s something that would be much easier to handle at the library-level for a finite set of architectures than at the language level for all archs.
I’d also like to see the elimination of printf specifiers. Another total disaster and source of soooooo many bugs. Especially with all of these variable types.
The number of cases where it’s important to use different types on different architectures exists, but is very small.
That’s something that would be much easier to handle at the library-level for a finite set of architectures than at the language level for all archs.
I’d also like to see the elimination of printf specifiers. Another total disaster and source of soooooo many bugs. Especially with all of these variable types.