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Improving _Generic in C2y
The first two meetings of C after C23 was finalized are over, and we have started working on C2y. We decided that this cycle we’re not going to do that “Bugfix” followed by “Release” stuff, because that proved to be a REALLY bad idea that killed a ton of momentum and active contributors during the C11 to C17 timeframe. So, this time, we’re hitting both bugfixes AND features so we can make sure we don’t lose valuable contributions and fixes by stalling for 5 to 6 years again. So, with that…
We decided that this cycle we’re not going to do that “Bugfix” followed by “Release” stuff, because that proved to be a REALLY bad idea that killed a ton of momentum and active contributors during the C11 to C17 timeframe. So, this time, we’re hitting both bugfixes AND features so we can make sure we don’t lose valuable contributions and fixes by stalling for 5 to 6 years again. While C has a colloquial rule that the C standard library can “require magic not possible by normal users”, it was exceedingly frustrating to implement type-generic macros — specifically,<tgmath.h> — without any language support at all.
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