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pascal_cuoq on April 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

Many C compilers offer, as an extension, the very binary constant notation that you miss, as anyone who has worked on the front-end of a C static analyzer would tell you.

ux on April 14, 2020 [–]

Yes I'm aware. But we can agree it would be welcome in the standard, isn't it?

pascal_cuoq on April 14, 2020 | [–]

Yes, if only so that we (as a category) do not have to discover it exists when already facing C programs that use it.

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