On 22 October 2022 19:04:09 BST, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
On Saturday, 22 October 2022 03:35:59 PDT blacktea hamburger via Std-Proposals
wrote:
WG21's views are not necessarily the same as WG14. It may broke some code,
but it was probably code of the sort that has become increasingly rare over
the years since C++ diverged from C. C and C++ are different languages,
aren't they?
So I think it can be still proposed to WG21.
Not exactly.
On all operating systems except for Windows, the C library comes from the OS
and the C++ library comes with the compiler, so they are separate
implementations and have limitations on what the C++ standard can influence on
the C library, even the <cxxxx> headers.
So this change needs to take into account the difficulty in implementing it and
evaluate whether it's worth the effort.
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