Will the core.stdc module be updated for newer versions of C?

Laeeth Isharc Laeeth at laeeth.com
Mon Sep 10 17:53:16 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 8 September 2018 at 01:12:30 UTC, solidstate1991 
wrote:
> While for the most part it still works very well, however when 
> porting Mago I found a few functions that are not present in 
> C99 (most notably wcsncpy_s).
>
> While I can write my own functions to do the same (already done 
> this with C++'s array since a few classes inherited from 
> std::vector, hopefully I don't need to fiddle too much with it 
> on the Debug engine to limit reliance on GC) I think it would 
> be a good idea to do some updates on the runtime library in 
> this regard, especially as it's a very easily available @nogc 
> library too.

dpp has worked for most C headers I tried and if not then file a 
GitHub issue and we will fix it.  I think C++ will come step by 
step in time, though it's quite a lot of work.



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