Re: C1X features

2010-08-08 Thread bearophile
Please ignore this post, my error, I am sorry. I'll post it elsewhere again.


C1X features

2010-08-08 Thread bearophile
Some proposed changes in the next C standard, named C1X, things possibly 
interesting for D design too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1X

The gets() function will be replaced by a safer gets_s(). The alloca() was 
essentially replaced by Variable Length Arrays in C99.


Something about _Alignas, alignof , aligned_alloc , :
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1447.htm
As I have explained here D will need a better management of alignments:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=114070


Something about _Atomic and :
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1875.html


This is related, purposes for 128 bit types:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/d1c03df36cdb3ace#

Bye,
bearophile