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jjnoakes
on Aug 28, 2014
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Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C
There's an obvious solution to this: have friendly-c compilers accept some declaration silently in a source file:
!dialect friendly-c
Now, c code can compile as friendly-c code, but explicitly-declared friendly-c code will fail if passed to a normal C compiler.
jzwinck
on Aug 28, 2014
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Such code would also fail if passed to tools like lint, and would result in warnings or worse when loaded in IDEs. The incredible C toolchain built over the decades is one of C's biggest advantages; friendly-c cannot afford to lose even 10% of it.
comex
on Aug 28, 2014
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So make it a #pragma.
ygra
on Aug 28, 2014
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Then it cannot cause a compile error in standard C.
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