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Defer available in gcc and clang
About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: I have not yet got my hands on the gcc implementation (but this is also less urgent, see… Continue reading
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Alias and references as localized macros
Since the last meeting of the C committee I am struggling with the idea of aliases as they are proposed in a long series of papers by JeanHeyd. Transparent Aliases I am struggling with this for several reasons, but most importantly is that I have the impression that it is a heavy gun pointed on… Continue reading
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Make C string literals const?
Martin Uecker has started a new initiative to ensure a better const contract for C2y: change the type of string literals to a const-qualified base type, much as it is already the case in C++. Compilers support this since a very long time; some of them have this as default, some provide command line switches… Continue reading
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