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0 pointsGibbon15y ago0 comments

An aside my feeling about Microsoft and their lack of C99 support is the community was inexplicably too nice to them. As well as compilers defaulting to C89 instead of the latest.

Also as someone that has a code base that targets a dozen different pieces of hardware ifdef madness is a strong indication that your program architexture is broken. Sometimes it's unavoidable but you should think of ifdef's as another name for FIXME.

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asveikau5y ago

Microsoft has gotten a bit better at it after many years of zero progress. Vs2010 introduced stdint and stdbool. Vs2015 finally allowed mixed declarations and code. I think the most lacking piece lately is the named struct member initializers.

jdsully5y ago

Almost all the progress made was necessary to support modern C++ standards, although it is nice they enabled it in the C compiler. They haven't added any C only features in a very long time.

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0 pointsGibbon15y ago0 comments

An aside my feeling about Microsoft and their lack of C99 support is the community was inexplicably too nice to them. As well as compilers defaulting to C89 instead of the latest.

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asveikau5y ago

jdsully5y ago

Almost all the progress made was necessary to support modern C++ standards, although it is nice they enabled it in the C compiler. They haven't added any C only features in a very long time.

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