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I like Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming https://nostarch.com/Effective_C but I would since I wrote it.

Please submit a proposal.

I've heard this comment more than once. What we are trying to accomplish is to collocate the resource acquisition code with the acquisition release code. This does mean that the re…

Yes, you are correct and there wasn't much support for capturing values so we would probably only support capture by reference and wait to see if C solves this problem in general b…

Based on feedback from the committee, I think it's very unlikely a dynamic approach will be used. The static only affects the for loop in terms of whether the deferred statements a…

Based on committee discussion, I think it is unlikely we will attempt to capture the values. The capture will most likely be done by reference. This case of the defer in the loop i…

Yes, my mistake--I was thinking of Rhode Island. I wrote a short bit about this at https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b... if anyone is interested.

Should work provided your wchar_t type is at least 21-bits wide.

I don't really see C going anywhere. It's not going away, and it's not going to evolve into Java. It's going to remain especially useful for memory constrained and performance crit…

For (3) mandatory warnings the closest thing is probably ISO/IEC TS 17961:2013. The purpose of ISO/IEC TS 17961 is to establish a baseline set of requirements for analyzers, includ…

Many of your remaining questions have devolved into "When will I see my favorite feature xyz appear in the C Standard?" The answer in most cases is "that depends on how long it tak…

For (2) I guess it depends. Annex K is obviously already a part of the standard so it depends on the implementation. There is a push to eliminate Annex K altogether from the C Stan…

Going to try to answer these separately. For (1) if you mean strings that are primitive types my guess is never. When had an hour discussion on this topic at a London meeting where…

So I spend a possibly unreasonable amount of time and page space discussing VLAs in the Effective C book. I understand there are some problems with them, but for what it is worth, …

Microsoft originally implemented the Annex K Bounds checked interfaces (e.g., the *_s functions) back in the 1990s in response to well-publicized vulnerabilities. They proposed sta…

I think a lot of these dudes are retired. A lot of good C people like P.J. Plauger, John Benito, and Clark Nelson have all retired recently. Anyway, they are all invited back. As a…

Some example of hardware variation (since you mentioned shifting and overflow): - signed integer overflow or division by zero occurs, a division instruction traps on x86, while it …

I would say that there is a lot of concern in the committee about how compilers are optimizing based on pointer providence. There has been a study group looking at this. It now app…

Yes, we have discussed adding this feature at scope level. A not entirely serious proposal was to implement it as follows: #define DEFER(a, b, c) \ for (bool _flag = true; _flag; _…

I would say that the committee does pay attention to hardware variations, even when there are no examples of existing hardware that implement a feature (for example, a trap represe…

Aaron Ballman even got a u8 character prefix added to C2x: N2198 2018/01/02 Ballman, Adding the u8 character prefix http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2198.pdf

It has not. The C Committee has taken two votes on this, and in each case, the committee has been equally divided. Without a consensus to change the standard, the status quo wins. …

Uninitialized Reads https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3041020

I don't know of any plans to add semantics for divide-by-zero of dereferencing a null pointer. I'm guessing this is not viable because there is no agreed upon semantics among diffe…

Sounds like a good use of standardization. If there is existing implementation practice, please go ahead and submit a proposal. I would be happy to champion such a proposal if you …