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slavik81
on Jan 22, 2022
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ISO C became unusable for operating systems develo...
What is it about RADIX50 that makes it incompatible with the C standard? The lack of a reserved null value?
WalterBright
on Jan 22, 2022
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50
Note the lack of lower case, characters like { } ( ) [ ] * : & | # !, and on and on.
slavik81
on Jan 22, 2022
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Oh, as a source file encoding. Well, it lacks the characters needed for trigraphs, so maybe we could add support with a quadgraphs extension...
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