[pjmlp]

Not only it was a good proposal, since 1990 that WG14 has not done anything else into that sense, and doesn't look like it ever will.

[uecker]

Let's see. We have a relatively concrete plan to add dependent structure types to C2Y: struct foo { size_t n; char (buf)[.n]; };

Once we have this, the wide pointer could just be introduced as syntactic sugar for this. char (buf)[:] = ..

Personally, I would want the dependent structure type first as it is more powerful and low-level with no need to decide on a new ABI.

[int_19h]

This feels like such a massive overkill complexity-wise for something so basic.

[uecker]

Why do you think so? The wide pointers are syntactic sugar on top of it, so from an implementation point of view not really simpler.

[pjmlp]

Thanks, interesting to see how it will turn out.