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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: C Construction Problem
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 02/26/2018 12:21 AM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
[...]
>> The main reason for sticking to C89 is that Microsoft doesn't support
>> the more recent standards. But now C89 support in Visual Studio is
>> going to be removed too.
>
> That sound like nonsense on both counts.  Due to C++11 using C99 rather 
> than C89 as its base, C99 support in visual studio has improved.  My 
> last hour on Friday afternoon was spent replacing our old platform 
> specific size_t format specifier macros with %zu...

Yes, but it's not clear what that means for support for the C89 core
language.

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