[anitil]

Oh I thought that was a C99 addition? It's been a while since I've used them.

Edit: struggling to find a source, though this GCC doc suggests it's C99 (but maybe that's only GCC?) - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html

[AlotOfReading]

It was C99. It took C++ 21 years to copy it.

[eqvinox]

It's been the primary and most annoying interop issue for us when we have to integrate C++ code into our primarily C codebase (= build some pieces of our code in C++, which necessarily has to interact with at least our header files).

(Second place: differences in available GCC/clang compiler extensions between C and C++ [our software does not support Windows/MSVC], third place: differences in what casts are permitted/how they are done)

[uecker]

My number one issue are VLA parameters

int foo(int N, char buf[N]);

which I like to use because they improve warning messages, but they are not accepted in C++.

[Cyph0n]

Well, C is not the same as C++. It even says in that doc that “this extension is not implemented in C++”.

[anitil]

Yeah sorry in my head I assumed that it would have been adopted