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Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023 by uxp8u61q on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:54AM (#37819965)
inttypes.h was added to C99. A quarter of a century ago.
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Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023 by yakubin on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:31AM (#37820291)
Many C codebases predate that. And Visual Studio for a long time didn’t support anything newer than C89.
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Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023 by eqvinox on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:32AM (#37821479)
There's no requirement for a born-1995 codebase to still build on a 1995 system in 2023.

I work on a born-1995 codebase. We started requiring an ISO C11 plus GNU extensions¹ several years ago and are actively removing "compatibility" checks and kludges that are outdated.

[¹ to be fair - not needing to support Windows is a godsend for any C project.]

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