Draft standards C89 The ANSI standard. C23 the most recent draft. Notes and quotes on C standard. Three modest proposals for fixing the C standard.
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Unforgivable C programming 1
Here’s a program that exhibits the low level nature of C by changing the return address of a function. The function “one” always returns the
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Threads in C
There is a nice example thread semantics in a paper by David Goldblatt (P1916R0) which illustrates a couple of things about multi-core processing – including
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ISO C is not a serious programming language
The C Standards process over the last few decades has addressed both optimization and pointer type safety largely through a concept called “undefined behavior”. The
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Pointer alias analysis in C
Perhaps there is some reason to provide a mechanism for asserting, in a particular patch of code, that the compiler is free to make optimistic
Read moreC compiler developers are hostile to C programming
From the LLVM developer mailing list this remarkable exchange in which Chris Lattner of LLVM says that the compiler use of undefined behavior (UB) is
Read moreThe C standard versus C and the mother of all hacks.
The Kafkaesque interaction of the C standard and the main open source C compilers was concisely outlined by one of the main LLVM authors back
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