24 points dverlaeckt80 1 day ago 5 comments
MisterTea 1 day ago | parent
As someone who loves and enjoys writing Plan 9 c, all I can say is "standard c", whatever that means these days, is a mess. Too many things to name ranging from the only two oss compilers being bloated monsters, post c99 additions being pointless, in-line asm ruining portability*, and POSIX can die in a fire (along with typewriter terminals.)
I have a friend who is currently on the C committee and is likely going to leave because of all the bad ideas which have both been implemented and going to be implemented.
* No, spamming a million ugly #ifdefs all over the source files is gross and hard to read. Split up the code dammit.
201984 33 minutes ago | parent
>post c99 additions being pointless
Atomics are necessary nowadays though.
glouwbug 29 minutes ago | parent
Plan 9 inheritance is really nice. You can still use it with `gcc -fplan9-extensions`. It builds some nice polymorphic workflow an array of tagged enum void pointers
dzaima 9 minutes ago | parent
> gcc, however, always defines FLT_ROUNDS to 1
Well, considering that gcc doesn't support the FENV_ACCESS pragma, and as such all fesetround calls are always UB, it is valid for it to act as if the rounding mode never changes from the default :)