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0 pointsbeej715y ago0 comments

I'm chuckling to myself at "there are not many new language features" because that's what I thought.

There's fair amount added to the core since C89, actually... And if you include the library changes, game over! I had no idea how much had been added.

More challenging is to find what's been subtracted.

This no longer defaults to int:

static i;

And gets() is toast.

Anyone know any others?

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JoeAltmaier5y ago

Array initializers! Lots of changes there. Oh, things subtracted? Wasn't there a change in typedef vs type tags?

pjmlp5y ago

VLAs, made optional in C11, so compilers that jumped from C89 to C11, like on embedded space, or MSVC, never bothered with supporting them.

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