Re:C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
by flohofwoe on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:52AM
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These are C99 features which MSVC only got around 2015 (of course a decade later those are safe to use in portable code).
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Re:C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
by someonebaggy on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:13PM
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They're also in C++11. When did MSVC get that? Is it also possible they got it before the C++11 standard? And of course Microsoft has its own different spellings: BYTE, WORD, DWORD, QWORD