Jens Gustedt's Blog

About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon.

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.

At last, the new edition is now also available in print and e-pub versions, the contents is the same as described in the previous article.

[The wordpress markdown inclusion does a very bad job, it seems, there have been some idiotic formatting errors.

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++.

This week on the C committee mailing list we had a discussion about how C’s types are organized into different categories.

C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, https://wg21.link/p2900.

The new revision of eĿlipsis (20250219) has a lot of cleanups, bugfixes etc, but one thing I’d like to emphasize is a new feature that I’d call meta-quotes in lack for a better idea of a name that implement exemption of tokens from macro replacement.

I have already talked several times about defer, the new feature that hopefully will make it into a future version of C.

The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654 And as before a dedicated page for the book may be found at https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/ where you also may find a link to download the…