In two ancient posts I have talked about arrays in modern C, “don’t be afraid of variably modified types” and “VLA as function arguments”. Still there seem to be … | Continue reading
In the previous post I already presented an idea for a defer feature for C, namely a feature that would provide a simple mechanism to cleanup at the end of a block, regardless how that block is lef… | Continue reading
Among the other new proposals for C23 that WG14 received are two brilliant gems by Alex Gilding The constexpr specifierThe void-which-binds: typesafe parametric polymorphism The first is probably w… | Continue reading
The dust is now settling and we finally should have all proposals for new C23 features. Below you find links to some of the newer ones that I co-authored. Many previous proposals are still open bec… | Continue reading
This is a new paper that appeared today on the site of the C committee: C already has a variaty of interfaces for type-generic programming, but lacks a systematic approach that provides type safety… | Continue reading
C has many misnomers concerning keywords. Here I give a table of possible keywords and convenient macro names that might replace them. New keywords in future C standards usually start with an under… | Continue reading
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21: It introduces the implem… | Continue reading
v2 of that specification just appeared on the C comittee website: A Common C/C++ Core Specification rev 2 For an introduction to the originial version see “A common C/C++ core specification&#… | Continue reading
I just published a new document on the WG14 (C committee) site N2494: A common C/C++ core specification It is attempt to push the fast-forward button to the annoyingly slow development process for … | Continue reading
I just published a new document on the WG14 (C committee) site N2494: A common C/C++ core specification It is attempt to push the fast-forward button to the annoyingly slow development process for … | Continue reading
Since decades, C is one of the most widely used programming languages, and is used successfully for large software projects that are ubiquitous in modern computing devices of all scales. For many p… | Continue reading
A new edition of the book Modern C is now available under a CC license via the following page This edition is the result of a collaboration with Manning, and improves a lot over the previous edi… | Continue reading
The C committee (AKA WG14) has now moved to construct the next real revision of the C standard. This is commonly referred to “C2x”, where the “x” is supposed to represent th… | Continue reading
As you know, C and C++ are sister languages that have a lot in common, but that drifted quite apart over the years. In general, neither code of one language can be compiled as the other language, t… | Continue reading