cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21458338

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered “essentially feature-complete” with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified.

Preparations are now underway to set the default C language version of GCC to GNU23 as the GNU dialect of C23. Or in other words, implying -std=gnu23 when no other C standard is specified.

  • BB_C
    36·
    6 hours ago

    That’s good and all, but we all explicitly pass -std=gnu99 (or -std=c99 if you don’t care about MSYS2 compat) in our build scripts buddy 😉

    Okay, maybe not all all. But you get the idea.

    Are there any relevant projects who use the increasingly C+±infested newer versions of the language?

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      3·
      60 minutes ago

      I’m not a C programmer, but looking at the changes and improvements, there are lot of good advancements I would not want to miss out on: C11 (C17 just fixes a few little issues from C11) > C23

      Stuff like Multi-threading support, Improved Unicode support, Add memccpy() and whats so bad about Various syntax changes improve compatibility with C++? C doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If you don’t want learn the new changes or do not want rely on it because of compatibility reasons, I can understand. But why would you not use newer C versions, if there is no compatibility with older version “required”?