Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R...
by josefx on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:14AM
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> If a line of code doesn't look like a function call, it's not calling anything.
except maybe allocating dynamic arrays, floating point ops if those don't exist in hardware. Then you have signal handlers that can be called on math errors, segmentation faults, ... . So basically every line in your code can implicitly call a function.
> If I give a Linux user the source of a C program, they can probably compile it with the tools they already have.
What is win32.h and why is it missing?
> This will most likely be the case 20 years from now too
What is Xlib.h and what do you mean I have to rewrite the apps front end from scratch?
except maybe allocating dynamic arrays, floating point ops if those don't exist in hardware. Then you have signal handlers that can be called on math errors, segmentation faults, ... . So basically every line in your code can implicitly call a function.
> If I give a Linux user the source of a C program, they can probably compile it with the tools they already have.
What is win32.h and why is it missing?
> This will most likely be the case 20 years from now too
What is Xlib.h and what do you mean I have to rewrite the apps front end from scratch?