Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: _BitInt(N) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:19:44 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 19 Message-ID: <87pl8ftmkf.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10dajlh$ko3c$1@dont-email.me> <10g1j7h$2deh9$1@dont-email.me> <10g1qq9$2f8lb$4@dont-email.me> <10g28gm$2mf9s$1@dont-email.me> <10g2f2d$2oufq$1@dont-email.me> <10g2m3v$2s5sa$1@dont-email.me> <10g53au$3onvh$1@dont-email.me> <10g58pa$3r273$1@dont-email.me> <10g6bpp$60nh$1@dont-email.me> <10g6qek$bfrp$1@dont-email.me> <10g742m$ev96$2@dont-email.me> <10g779l$h980$1@dont-email.me> <10g7aci$icq7$1@dont-email.me> <10g7hm2$lpsu$1@dont-email.me> <87y0nm7yru.fsf@example.invalid> <10gl6jq$3htol$9@dont-email.me> <10gm4l9$2302c$1@dont-email.me> <10gmhn1$10oh3$1@solani.org> <87o6og31e7.fsf@example.invalid> <10gosdg$33du5$4@dont-email.me> <86ldj3tvq9.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1c4637fb3b5663b94c1d68a6155d6aa3"; logging-data="2355630"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185zhU3TPsHnI2sXMLlniyK" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ow0Rr/+gvJ5eM8mZ77J/NRB3ISc= sha1:7IxgWMtQvPi6a1TtQ1O/guw0J2A= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:395826 Tim Rentsch writes: > Richard Heathfield writes: >> On 02/12/2025 23:33, Keith Thompson wrote: [...] >>> But trigraphs have been removed in C23. >> >> Then so, in some mainframe environments, have curly braces. I suppose >> their fix will be to not adopt C23. > > Curly braces are still available by means of the digraphs <% and %>. True, and that's probably good enough, but digraphs aren't recognized in string literals, character constants, header names, or comments. Then again, if the system's character set doesn't even have '{' and '}' characters, there isn't going to be much demand for them. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */