Top "C99" questions

difference between c99 and c11

I am learning c, presently. The book I read is C99 based. I want to update my knowledge to C11 …

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How to find my current compiler's standard, like if it is C90, etc

I'm working on a Linux machine. Is there any system command to find the standard followed by the C compiler …

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C99 inline function in .c file

I defined my function in .c (without header declaration) as here: inline int func(int i) { return i+1; } Then in …

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Does the C preprocessor strip comments or expand macros first?

Consider this (horrible, terrible, no good, very bad) code structure: #define foo(x) // commented out debugging code // Misformatted to not …

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C89 vs c99 GCC compiler

Is there a difference if I compile the following program using c89 vs c99? I get the same output. Is …

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Smart pointers/safe memory management for C?

I, and I think many others, have had great success using smart pointers to wrap up unsafe memory operations in …

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Difference between uint8_t, uint_fast8_t and uint_least8_t

The C99 standard introduces the following datatypes. The documentation can be found here for the AVR stdint library. uint8_t …

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Are there machines, where sizeof(char) != 1, or at least CHAR_BIT > 8?

Are there machines (or compilers), where sizeof(char) != 1? Does C99 standard says that sizeof(char) on standard compliance implementation MUST …

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Forcing C99 in CMake (to use 'for' loop initial declaration)

I've been searching a portable way to force CMake to enable the compiler's C99 features in order to avoid the …

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What is the correct type for array indexes in C?

What type for array index in C99 should be used? It have to work on LP32, ILP32, ILP64, LP64, LLP64 …

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