Draft C2Y _BitInt related proposals
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jul 8 13:19:38 GMT 2026
* Jakub Jelinek via Gcc:
> As I wrote earlier, I'd like to see _BitInt I/O support in
> *printf*/*scanf* and extending support of _BitInt in stdbit.h
> in C2Y.
>
> For those I wrote drafts of possible C2Y papers:
> https://jakubjelinek.github.io/wg14/va_arg_bitint.html
> https://jakubjelinek.github.io/wg14/stdbit_bitint.html
>
> I'd appreciate any comments on this.
Is this going in the right direction, though?
Why shouldn't programmers be able to write %d in the format string and
print _BitInt arguments this way?
I think it's time to pass a type descriptor for varags functions. Then
it wouldn't be necessary to pass the _BitInt size as argument to
va_arg_bitint.
Thanks,
Florian
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