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From: mia soweli <inbox@tachibana-labs.org>
To: 9front@9front.org, ori@eigenstate.org
Subject: [9front] Re: [9front] [PATCH] cc: support const and restrict inside array declarations
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 11:20:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90330A14-7497-4989-8B43-EDE22B1C881A@tachibana-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E88575936AB4BCE247B20CFAEBB98DCE@eigenstate.org>

i came across code like this updating the netsurf port. i think it was in libcss.

On 14 May 2023 06:25:45 BST, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
>Quoth mia soweli <inbox@tachibana-labs.org>:
>> this allows c23 style array declarations (see c23 draft section 6.7.6),
>> with type qualifiers inside the brackets.
>> for example:
>> 
>> 	const int list[restrict 4];
>> 	int list[const 4];
>> 	int list[const restrict 4];
>> 	int list[volatile 4];
>> 	int list[noret 4]; /* we may not want to allow this */
>> 
>> they are ignored as with other uses of const, restrict, and volatile.
>> it does not allow
>> 
>> 	int list[static 4];
>> 
>> which is also allowed in c23.
>> 
>
>I'm not sure why this is useful. Is there some specific code
>that wants this?
>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-14 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-13 23:31 mia soweli
2023-05-14  5:25 ` ori
2023-05-14 10:20   ` mia soweli [this message]
2023-05-14  8:10 ` Michael Forney
2023-05-14 10:23   ` [9front] " mia soweli
2023-05-14 11:10 ` [9front] [PATCH] cc: support type qualifiers inside array brackets mia soweli
2023-05-15  7:39   ` [9front] " mia soweli
2023-05-15 12:51     ` ori
2023-05-15 14:05       ` [9front] " mia soweli

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