Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:36:51 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87a58qs2kc.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <87h62ys4w5.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:36:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da68f73767d3cb351ac0b16ea7c85d0b"; logging-data="3269647"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+j4PJqb29wk6FkvG45EkeL" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oTlnrPPPBfWAf+dV1QNUZ7Knv1Q= sha1:n/8t+LP9PKt4vVgXGiXWH1QhFMc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:392224 Keith Thompson writes: > bart writes: [...] >> Clearly, they're not quite as fully supported as short, int etc; they >> are usually just aliases. But that needn't stop them being shown on >> such a chart. > > Apparently the author of the chart chose to include types that are > defined by the core language, not by the library. I think that was a > perfectly valid choice. Adding all the types specified in the library > would make the chart far too big and not much more informative. Oh, and here's a diret quotation from https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/a-diagram-of-c23-basic-types/ : It basically translates the section “6.2.5 Types” of the C23 standard into a graph of inclusions. Again, if you don't like it, make your own chart. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */