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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

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288 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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harry8 ◴[17 Oct 24 23:35 UTC] No.41874909[source]▶
Is C++ capable of deprecating or simplifying anything?

Honest question, haven't followed closely. rand() is broken,I;m told unfixable and last I heard still wasn't deprecated.

Is this proposal a test? "Can we even drop support for a solution to a problem literally nobody has?"

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1. jfbastien ◴[18 Oct 24 02:33 UTC] No.41875887[source]▶
As mentioned by others, we've dropped trigraph and deprecated rand (and offer an alternative). I also have:

* p2809 Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior * p1152 Deprecating volatile * p0907 Signed Integers are Two's Complement * p2723 Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration * p2186 Removing Garbage Collection Support

So it is possible to change things!