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We embedded devs might be able to start consistently using C99 in about fifty years or so. Hopefully. Lots of development kits barely support C89.

• goto11 7y ago
  Couldn't pre-processors be used to add such features? (I don't know anything about embedded development.)
  • mbel 7y ago
    CPP would not be enough, you would need full C99-to-C89 compiler with parsing to AST.
• anilakar 7y ago
  Ironically, most legacy C environments are commercial in nature. Open source tools seem to have a lot better track record in this regard.
• jhasse 7y ago
  But the ICU headers require C99 anyway.