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[Henrik]

On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 20:34:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> C99 mainly cleared up a lot of uncertainty in IEEE floating 
> point arithmetic, by stamping approval on the obvious things 
> the C compilers were doing anyway. C99 added a couple new 
> features, which were badly designed and remain unused - things 
> like 'restrict' and that weird way to allocate arrays on the 
> stack. Oh, and those miserable trigraphs, which were never used 
> outside of test suites.

Hi Walter,

do you find the ideas of the restrict keyword and VLA bad, or 
only the current implementation in C99? If the ideas are good, 
how would you have implemented them instead? I'm using the latest 
version of C in my work, so your answer would be interesting to 
see.

BR, Henrik