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Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

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218 points signa11 | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 10:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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akdev1l ◴[14 Apr 25 12:50 UTC] No.43680726[source]▶
> Microsoft has unfortunately chosen to neglect C for a long time, its compilers dragging far behind the rest of the pack.

Is this still true? MSVC is pretty good at compiling C++ nowadays

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1. qsort ◴[14 Apr 25 13:00 UTC] No.43680812[source]▶
I think he's referring to C specifically, not C++. It's true that modern versions of MSVC are compliant (and they're also typically faster at implementing features than gcc and clang), but for the longest time there were subtle differences in their C library. To this day I don't think they support VLAs, which are technically standard C (At least until recently, I'm not sure about the latest versions, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can say more).
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2. akdev1l ◴[14 Apr 25 20:42 UTC] No.43686097[source]▶
I see. I kind of assumed improving the C++ compiler required improving the C parts as well.

VLA situation seems complex: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55696680/in-which-versio...