Re:ISO C is increasingly moronic
by phkamp on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @02:22AM
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Provided you were prevented from linking objects together which were compiled with different C versions, that would be both better and safer.
The problem with ISO-C's approach is that the chances of having both "#include <stdbool.h>" and "#define bool char" in a codebase of a few million lines are almost unity, and causes bugs which are near-impossible to find, unless you happen to know the intricacies of hacks like this.
In general, optional features in a standard are a bad thing. ISO-C seems to think they are the solution to everything they cannot agree to do properly.
The problem with ISO-C's approach is that the chances of having both "#include <stdbool.h>" and "#define bool char" in a codebase of a few million lines are almost unity, and causes bugs which are near-impossible to find, unless you happen to know the intricacies of hacks like this.
In general, optional features in a standard are a bad thing. ISO-C seems to think they are the solution to everything they cannot agree to do properly.