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Re: C wish list

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: C wish list
Date 2019-03-21 16:11 +0100
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On 21/03/2019 01:25, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> 
>> On 20/03/2019 21:32, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>> <cut>
>>>> I think it would be a good idea for future C standards to fix the signed
>>>> representation as two's complement, remove all mentions of trapping
>>>> values for integer types, remove the possibility of padding bits in
>>>> these types (except perhaps for _Bool), enforce either big or little
>>>> endian ordering, and tighten up implementation defined behaviour when
>>>> all current targets have the same behaviour.
>>>
>>> Why?  What is the cost of leaving things as they are?
>>>
>>
>> It is not a big cost, but it would simplify the standards, and
>> simplify some code that aims to be highly portable (it would also make
>> code that now is "portable to all realistic systems" into code that is
>> fully portable).
> 
> A few parts of the standard would be a bit simpler, but the wording is
> already there and I doubt it confuses anyone.  Other parts are likely to
> get longer -- for example, there's no mention of byte order at present
> so you'd have to add that.
> 

I think you might be surprised how much the wording in the C standards
confuses people!  It also greatly reduces the number of people who might
read it.  The standard has a great deal of scope for improvement in
clarity and organisation, to make it easier as a reference document.
Note that "simplifying" does not necessarily only mean "taking stuff
out" - it means making it easier for people to look up things in the
document and get the answers they want, without having to figure out
what a "padding bit" might be, and without having to jump back and forth
through a half-dozen sections to get a complete picture of an "int".

> The second advantage seems like sophistry to me.  Yes, in some way, code
> that has to negotiate the possible of padding bits on some hardware
> would be simpler if these were not allowed but only at the expense of
> either not having a C implementation available on that hardware or
> having one that has to emulate integer types with no padding, presumably
> at great expense.
> 
> <cut>
>> But who could object to simplifying the C standards a little?
> 
> Well, for one, anyone who is not certain what hardware we'll be using in
> a few years time.
> 

Anyone who uses hardware at the moment, and knows about the patterns of
hardware for the last 20 years, can make some good guesses about
features of the hardware for the next 20 years - at least for hardware
that would be running C.  I'll bet you a pizza that all mainstream
architectures targeted by C2039 compilers in the year 2039 will have
two's complement signed integers, byte ordering either pure
little-endian or pure big-endian, and all but a tiny fraction of a
percent will have 8-bit "char".  And I'll bet extra cheese that "int" is
32-bit.

That doesn't mean that there will not be other architectures around, but
they won't be programmed in modern C.

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C wish list Howard Chu <highlandsun@gmail.com> - 2019-03-19 14:58 -0700
  Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-19 15:58 -0700
    Re: C wish list Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2019-03-20 08:27 +0200
      Re: C wish list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 06:54 +0000
        Re: C wish list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 07:00 +0000
        Re: C wish list Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2019-03-20 13:26 +0200
          Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 08:17 -0400
            Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 13:20 -0700
      Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 01:43 -0700
      Re: C wish list scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-03-20 13:11 +0000
    Re: C wish list Howard Chu <highlandsun@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 09:17 -0700
      Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 09:34 -0700
        Re: C wish list Howard Chu <highlandsun@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 10:06 -0700
          Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 10:47 -0700
            Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-20 17:59 +0000
              Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 11:12 -0700
              Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 13:47 -0700
            Re: C wish list Howard Chu <highlandsun@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 11:46 -0700
              Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-20 19:21 +0000
              Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 12:31 -0700
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              Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 13:52 -0700
          Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-20 11:04 -0700
          Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 13:43 -0700
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  Re: C wish list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 05:45 +0000
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      Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 14:02 -0700
        Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-20 22:55 +0100
          Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 15:15 -0700
            Re: C wish list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-20 23:56 +0000
              Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 17:52 -0700
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              Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-21 22:26 +0100
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                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-22 09:28 +0100
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                Re: C wish list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-23 22:40 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-23 16:24 -0700
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                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-24 11:14 +0000
                Re: C wish list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-24 14:01 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-03-25 07:53 -0400
                Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-25 11:22 -0700
                Re: C wish list Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-03-26 23:28 -0400
                Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-27 07:49 -0400
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                Re: C wish list James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-10 09:18 -0700
                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-24 17:23 +0100
                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-24 16:51 +0000
                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-24 16:38 -0700
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                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-24 17:57 -0700
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                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-24 18:51 +0000
                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-24 19:08 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Ike Naar <ike@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2019-03-24 19:49 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-25 17:01 +0000
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                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-24 17:09 +0100
                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-24 16:12 -0700
                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-23 13:47 +0100
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                Re: C wish list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-23 17:53 +0000
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                Re: On "high-levelness" of languages (was "C wish list") Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-23 18:37 -0700
                Re: On "high-levelness" of languages (was "C wish list") David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-24 22:22 +0100
                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-24 21:58 +0100
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                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-23 13:00 -0700
                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-24 22:27 +0100
                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-23 23:34 +0000
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-24 17:43 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-25 22:08 +0000
                Re: C wish list David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-26 10:20 +0100
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                Re: C wish list scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-03-26 19:59 +0000
                Re: C wish list Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-27 09:24 +1300
                Re: C wish list scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-03-26 20:54 +0000
                Re: C wish list Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-27 09:58 +1300
                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-26 13:43 -0700
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-26 22:49 +0000
                Re: C wish list Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-03-27 21:02 +0000
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-28 18:04 +0000
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                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-26 18:25 +0000
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-26 14:47 +0000
                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-26 18:14 +0000
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-26 22:31 +0000
                Re: C wish list Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-27 00:08 +0000
                Re: C wish list antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2019-03-28 18:45 +0000
                Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-21 15:13 -0700
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    Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-20 13:15 -0700
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              Re: C wish list Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-21 13:02 -0700
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