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> you can't expect the old C code to follow the rules of the new versions of the language Well, to be pedantic, the entire point of the C standard, and the sta
by nomel 9mo ago
> you can't expect the old C code to follow the rules of the new versions of the language
Well, to be pedantic, the entire point of the C standard, and the standard body, is that you should expect it to work, as long as you're working within the standard!
- Joker_vD 9mo agoNot really, no. Newer versions of standard can (and do, although rarely, I have give it to C standard committee) introduce incompatibilities with earlier versions of standard. E.g. at one point the standard explicitly allowed to #undef "bool", "true", and "false" (and to redefine them later) but IIRC this has been deprecated and removed. In any case: blindly switching what is essentially a typedef-ed int into _Bool has no business working as expected, since _Bool is a rather quirky type.
- nomel 9mo agoI'm using the dictionary definition of expect here, which is compatible with what you're saying.