C11 atomics, C11 threads, variable length arrays, safely reading from an inactiv...

nly · 2026-03-05T07:49:43.000000Z

C++ has its own atomics, threads etc. And variable length array's work just fine in C++ in both clang and GCC.

C++ also has it's own designated initializer like syntax.

201984 · 2026-03-06T00:12:46.000000Z

>C++ has its own atomics, threads etc.

It does indeed, but they are not compatible and at least the C atomics cannot be used from C++.

>C++ also has it's own designated initializer like syntax.

One that is far more limited. This is valid C, but not C++.

  struct bar {
      int a;
      int b;
  };
  
  struct bar tmp = {
      .b = 0,
      .a = 0,
  };

pjmlp · 2026-03-03T08:41:51.000000Z

Indeed, and some of those, thankfully as C++ is TypeScript for C.