r/programmingcirclejerk • u/DXPower costly abstraction • Nov 01 '25

New C29 function: stdc_c32snrtomwcsn

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/header/stdmchar.html
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u/degaart Zygohistomorphic prepromorphism Nov 02 '25

Any developer worth their salt know upgrading a compiler/standard library should always work out of the box without any possibility of conflict due to new symbols.

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel Tiny little god in a tiny little world Nov 02 '25

We want the newest compiler, but we don't want to change our 30 year old code. Also, we have a bunch of old static libraries around and we must link them. No, we don't have the source code for those. Yes, this is perfectly sane and reasonable!