Modern C for C++ Peeps

Re:Modern C for C++ Peeps by heywhatupboys on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:40PM (#34293154)

_t is even a "reserved" suffix in C. Stop using it. If you want compile-time type safety, pick another language like Haskell. A "typedef" is by no means a contract declaration in C.

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Re:Modern C for C++ Peeps by mh7 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:47PM (#34294347)

No it is not reserved, it's just posix's personal style guides. There's just as much of a name clash possibility when not using _t because lots of other libraries and platforms uses some other convention.

Only ISO C can reserve things, no one else, and ISO C does not reserve the _t suffix.

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Re:Modern C for C++ Peeps by heywhatupboys on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:24PM (#34301002)

I think it is pedantic to say that POSIX's guidance is not the de-facto C standard, or at least that the union of rules between ISO and POSIX

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