How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development · HackerPapers discussions

How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development — mentioned by Mathnerd314

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:35:14 GMT

For more, see https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_20... (clearly distinguishing C* which corresponds to the hardware from "C" which is the subset of C* that excludes all undefined behaviour) and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07845.pdf "How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development".

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How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development — mentioned by aw1621107

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:10:36 GMT

> but there was an article on here not too long ago that was arguing that nearly all os development required old C because choices of the committee would break use cases required under the guise of undefined behavior. I would guess that you're referring to either "How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development" ([0]) or "How One Word Broke C" ([1]). [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07845 , most recent HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022022 [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210307213745/https://news.quel... , HN discussion at…

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How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development — HN submission

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:20:37 GMT

ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

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