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Your C is not standard C(sebsite.pw)

111 points by dverlaeckt80 13 days ago | 79 comments

Blog post listing incompatibilities between ISO standard C and C as actually used with gcc/clang and glibc/musl.

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C(sebsite.pw)

64 points by signa11 16 days ago | 82 comments

Blog post explaining why standard C offers no portable way to check for errors in string-to-float conversion functions like strtod, following up on math_errhandling.

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird(sebsite.pw)

160 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 150 comments

an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed(sebsite.pw)

64 points by runningmike 2 months ago | 29 comments

Python string literals are kinda funny(sebsite.pw)

57 points by jandeboevrie 2 months ago | 42 comments

Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++(sebsite.pw)

28 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 23 comments

Two Case Studies of NaN(sebsite.pw)

25 points by ryantsuji 3 months ago | 8 comments