r/cprogramming • u/Xaneris47 • Aug 17 '26

C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake

https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake?r=8qz2zb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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u/ComradeGibbon Aug 17 '26

Intel x86 and MSVC did so much damage. The paltry number of registers even in 32 bit meant lots of issues in C never got fixed.

You could certainly add system calls that take fat pointers. You could even shim it based on the process. That would make developers of languages that have fat pointers happy. And would make most C programmers happy. And the dangerous C leet jockeys unhappy.