Obsolete C for you and me

Posted Dec 9, 2023 19:01 UTC (Sat) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Obsolete C for you and me by ballombe
Parent article: Modern C for Fedora (and the world)

>Which miscompilation are you talking about?

Well, I said what I was talking about:

>subtle "miscompilation" due to decades old code not playing with the rules of the C machine model or having implicit types and declarations.

Just try to compile a 30-40 year old C program. Chances are good that it just won't work.