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by mbel 2916 days ago
> yeah, there are standards, but they're actually ignored. There's lots of comments stories on HN about how C committee specified things that are unrealistic or outright impossible.

Any examples? It sounds ridiculous, perhaps you were speaking about C++? But then again I can't think of anything but "export templates" that were finally dropped from the standard.

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MSVC doesn't implement C99. A lot of platforms only have C89.