[juunpp]

> The ckd_* macros steer a refreshingly sane path around arithmetic pitfalls including C's "usual arithmetic conversions."

A 7 letter function to add two numbers and that returns a boolean... not entirely sure I'd call that 'sane'.

[ludocode]

I'd prefer if it were more letters. It bothers me when API designers omit random letters just to save a few keystrokes. These are particularly egregious because I keep forgetting which letters they kept. Is it "chk"? or "ckd"? or "chd"? or something else?

I wrote a portability library that wraps these with compiler intrinsic and standard C fallbacks. I chose to spell out the full word in addition to making the type explicit. It's a lot more verbose of course but a lot clearer to read:

https://github.com/ludocode/ghost/blob/develop/include/ghost...

[goatlover]

A saner language would handle the conversion for you so it would work with just the normal math operators.

[masklinn]

How would that work for the largest type supported by the platform?

[pjmlp]

A panic would be thrown, like in memory safe system programming languages, those that were in use outside Bell Labs and unfortunely lost to UNIX.