On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 14:09, Aaron Ballman via Liaison <
liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:47 AM Jₑₙₛ Gustedt <jens.gustedt_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Aaron,
> >
> > on Mon, 17 May 2021 07:01:33 -0400 you (Aaron Ballman
> > <aaron_at_[hidden]>) wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 6:13 AM Jₑₙₛ Gustedt via Liaison
> > > <liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > it seems that C++ has integrated
> > > >
> > > > https://wg21.link/p0627
> > > >
> > > > into C++20. This provides a pseudo-function `unreachable` where a
> > > > call indicates that the whole path in the control flow that reaches
> > > > it can never be taken.
> > > >
> > > > Is there interest / attempt / opposition of porting this feature to
> > > > C?
> > >
> > > Personally, I'm in favor of the idea -- the proposed functionality
> > > applies in C with the same general rationale (alongside similar C
> > > functionality as _Noreturn and assert), and it would be handy to add
> > > this functionality to C's toolbox.
> >
> > Great, so far the only reactions that I have been seeing here are
> > favorable. In contrast to that, the state of the proposal is somehow
> > unknown? Is there a way to know better where this is stuck, currently?
>
> WG21 tracks all of their papers using GitHub issues so that you can
> see the state of a given proposal. According to the issue for this
> paper (https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/275), it looks like
>

Which you can jump to using the https://wg21.link/p0627/github shortcut.


> this was last seen in Prague 2020 and needs additional revision. To
> see what feedback was given in Prague, you can check out the WG21 wiki
> (it uses the same password as the SG22 monthly meeting Zoom password):
>

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> https://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21prague/ (likely somewhere under the
> Library Working Group heading as they were the last group to see this
> according to the GitHub issue).
>

Searching for the paper number using the search box in the top-right corner
usually finds the relevant discussion.