Re: [Tinycc-devel] Is anyone on the C standards committee?

[JeanHeyd Meneide]

(As a small addendum to my previous e-mail, I should note: we have a number of tiny vendors on the Committee already, including one that is a One-Person-Compiler team, and one that brings input from a similar one-person-implementer team but from open source compiler SDCC. I myself am also a one person force of nature, but I don't have a released compiler to my name (yet!). This is not discouragement; more participation from involved stakeholders would be great.)

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 3:53 PM JeanHeyd Meneide <phdofthehouse@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Charles,

     My name is JeanHeyd Meneide, and I'm on ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG14 - the C Standards Committee. I write about it in a personal capacity and not-very-frequently here - https://thephd.dev/

     So far, what I've heard about so far is the standardization of GCC/Clang and other's __auto_type extension seemed to cause a lot worry for folks, and that "nullptr" might not be hard to implement but unsavory.

     After that, things like compatible type improvements, enumeration fixes and improvements, required two's complement behavior, #embed, __VA_OPT__ for macros, and more all came in to solve longstanding undefined behavior or implementation-defined behavior issues, code portability issues, and *so far* received pretty broad support from the communities we've been in contact with.

     (The above are all language-based features; there's library features too such as the new stdbit.h header, improved time bases in time.h, the new stdckdint.h header for overflow/underflow-checked arithmetic, and more.)

     I'd like to know what things you find to be unpalatable or unsavory in the direction of C! This can help us make decisions and inform us over the next 15 years.

Best Wishes,

JeanHeyd

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:55 PM Charles Lohr <lohr85@gmail.com> wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone from TCC on the standards committee?  I just really hope for a compiler as popular as TCC, there's someone there defending the interests of all the not-GCC, not-clang compilers, where difficulty of feature addition is a paramount concern.  I use TCC as my daily driver, and I have been increasingly anxious about some of the proposals and things that are being added to the C standard.

Charles

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