On Mon, 27 Apr 2026, 15:22 Jₑₙₛ Gustedt via Liaison, <
liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:51:15 +0200 you (Jan Schultke via Liaison
> <liaison_at_[hidden]>) wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I agree. The library features tend to get adopted in bulk
> > regularly; not so much for C core features.
>
> Are they adopted other than when a whole new revision of the C
> standard is incorporated?
>

Not usually, but there have been a few exceptions where we adopted a C
change in isolation. For example, removal of gets(), making assert
user-friendly, and Jan's proposal to add the parts of C23 math.h that I
omitted from the C23 rebase paper.