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Posts by Lundin
The C23 example as well as clang are correct. This is apparently a gcc bug in the latest 14.2 release, fixed in the "gcc (trunk)" unreleased version. The relevant part of the C23 standard here is ...
Please no. I had a bad experience of SO's failed and cancelled "Documentation" project. I raised the same concerns on the Electronics site here. I'll quote that post: The worst that can happen is ...
I propose that the following is added as off-topic: Off-topic Questions with artificial requirements and no practical use, including code golf and code obfuscation. This also covers artificial hom...
Please note that migrate in this context means grabbing the exact post as-is from a SE site and importing it here. This is allowed, with attribution given, as per licensing model. Codidact staff c...
No, it's not helpful, it's far too broad and doesn't make sense to use in combination with any other tag either. It can't be used for searching or categorizing questions either.
EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What ...
Standard library functions that should never be used: setjmp.h setjmp() Together with longjmp(), these functions are widely recogniced as incredibly dangerous to use: they lead to spaghetti ...
Yes there are references and pass-by-reference in C, though the language has no explicit syntax item called "reference" like C++. In a C context, it is irrelevant that C++ happens to have something...
See Software recommendations category. Referring to my own answer there, I think these questions should only be on-topic in case the OP manages to narrow down the scope sufficiently. In case the qu...
the answer is incredibly long It really isn't - though it might look that way because of the extensive use of large font headlines. I think it is a good answer - there's no problem in discussi...
Shell scripts, BASH, batch files, PowerShell etc etc are all on-topic here and so questions about command line commands ought to be as well. We may however require the question to include enough r...
If we ignore the part of recommendation questions leading to opinion-based answers, the main concern against these kind of questions is that they don't add anything of value to this site. But also ...
On-topic questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus I propose that this should be re-phrased: On-topic non-...
On the contrary, I think that it is appropriate and recommended practice. That way you (the poster of the question) can pick your own answer as the "official" one, since these post often (ought to...
I think this is important to consider because it doesn't only concern questions about bad practices or XY questions, but also if we should allow questions with artificial requirements or questions ...
Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family"...
The kind of comments telling you to add checks against null are typically coming from programmers mostly used to deal with higher level programming languages. They think that generally, more explic...
