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> Outdated documentation is pretty normal unfortunely, even .NET suffers from that nowadays. That's really unfortunate. > Not as bad as Apple nowadays though, quite far from Inside…

I think the documentation is outdated given that C11 atomics [1] and threads [2] are available for more than a year now. Same goes for pretty much everything MSVC frontend related …

Why would you need multiple allocations? edit: Isn't it just: float (*arr)[m][n] = malloc(sizeof(*arr));

Yes, but is one allowed to move a pointer inside it as they see fit? On a one-dimensional array, one can iterate through it starting with a pointer pointing to the first element an…

Are C multidimensional arrays guaranteed to be contiguous in memory? In practice they are, but can one iterate through them just by incrementing a pointer which points to the first…

Thank you!

Do you happen to have any source/book on why you can't use anything but a conservative gc on C-like languages? I would really like to know why that's the case.

There is a compatibilty chart: https://www.graalvm.org/python/compatibility/

There is always qbe if you need something simpler

> At least it does generics now Not in gccgo

Maybe cranelift will help with this. Faster compile times is one of its selling points.

> using LLVM backends Wait, there is an LLVM based Go toolchain? I thought the Go crowd was known for their NIH obsession.

- Though freeware and not foss, there is also pellesc over at Windows land, with almost full C23 support. - For small 8 bit systems, SDCC is an excellent choice, supporting even C2…

A possible answer is that one could modify n inside the function body, which means that the length is lost. But honestly, one could just use const to avoid this. Though, pointers t…

I get what you mean and I'm not saying that not having extra operators is a dealbreaker that will make spans unusable. I just find it more pleasant/convenient for the following rea…

Very nice comment. This was a blocking point I fell onto too. There is another option, to not allow spans on the return channel, but I don't know how people who handle resources wi…

(Just to be clear, I am not the author of the draft I posted in the parent comment, but it's the feature I want the most to be added in C2y. I was actually meaning of writting a pr…

Not a glsl or hlsl compiler, but there is a C compiler that targets spirv and is written in C. Here's the repo: https://github.com/heroseh/hcc

With all respect, please don't say nobody cares. There many people in the C community that want this but it's not easy to add a fat pointer to C after all these years. Though, ther…

Michaelforney has also built croc [1], a qbe based C compiler. Really impressive! [1]: https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc