C11 refers to the ANSI C language standard finalized in 2011.
C11 (formerly C1X) is an informal name for ISO/IEC 9899:2011. For more details see wikipedia.
Questions tagged [c11]
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Why were variable length arrays made optional in C 2011?
When VLAs were introduced in C 1999, I thought it was a great innovation to the language. However, having learned it was made optional in C 2011, I am wondering what led to its change in status, and if it means the feature is actually headed for…
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Why are zero length VLAs allowed in C99, but not in C11 any more?
In the comments to this former question, there was a discussion if the C standard allows variable length arrays (VLAs) of length 0 or not. As it turns out, the C99 standard states:
In 6.7.5.2 Array declarators, Constraints:
"If the expression [for…
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Is it acceptable to use C11 generic macros in Objective-C to box numbers?
I was getting tired of repeating types when writing things like this:
NSDictionary* d = @{@"so": [NSNumber numberWithInt:index]),
@"much": [NSNumber numberWithBool:accepted]),
@"repeat": [NSNumber…
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Could ANSI C standardized linkage syntax from early C wrong?
Recently I came up to something illogical, reading the latest ANSI C paper. It was talking about linkage but it never mentioned a way to declare internal identifiers inside block-scope (or at least in a useful way). Imagine something like this:
int…
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