Re: Non-(sub)-standard C

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Non-(sub)-standard C
Date	2015-05-25 22:50 +1200
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Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 25/05/15 05:46, Ian Collins wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> On 24/05/15 22:03, Keith Thompson wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> You've never seen long long int in use?  Variable-length arrays?
>>>> Flexible array members?  <stdint.h>?  Compound literals?
>>>> Designated initializers?  "//" comments?  Mixed declarations and
>>>> statements within a block?  Math functions that take float or long
>>>> dobule arguments?  _Bool and bool?
>>>
>>> Of the above list, in production code I've seen // comments (notably in
>>> a math.h header, causing the (C90) implementation to diagnose its own
>>> code!), and I think that's all. Of course, comp.lang.c is another
>>> matter, but it is a very artificial code environment.
>>
>> So you've never worked in a POSIX environment or worked on a Unix or
>> Linux kernel?
>
> In C++, sure, but we were talking about C. Most of my C programming (not
> /quite/ all, but certainly most) is done in environments where
> portability matters a great deal.

Me too, but these days I'd have to go well out of my way to find a 
target without a C99 compiler..

-- 
Ian Collins

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Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-20 08:56 -0700
  Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-05-20 18:02 +0200
  Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-20 09:20 -0700
  Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-05-20 12:12 -0500
  Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-20 10:53 -0700
    Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-21 09:44 -0700
      Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-21 10:22 -0700
      Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-21 10:46 -0700
      Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2015-05-21 19:39 +0000
        Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-22 10:13 -0700
          Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-22 14:02 -0700
            Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-23 09:41 -0700
              Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-23 13:37 -0500
              Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-23 14:38 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-24 10:10 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C wpihughes@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 12:53 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 13:05 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:01 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-25 10:19 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-26 11:01 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-26 11:40 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-27 10:28 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-27 11:13 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-28 12:20 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 12:26 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:12 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C wpihughes@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 13:57 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-26 11:33 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-24 14:03 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-24 22:09 +0100
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 16:46 +1200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 00:55 -0400
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 18:08 +1200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-25 10:58 +0100
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:12 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 18:40 -0400
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-26 11:14 +1200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-25 19:01 -0700
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 22:03 -0400
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-25 10:40 +0100
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 22:50 +1200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-25 12:42 +0200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 19:00 -0400
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-26 08:43 +0200
                Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:07 -0700
  Non-(sub)-standard C Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-05-20 19:27 -0700

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