C Programming/Language overloading and extensions
Most C compilers have one or more "extensions" to the standard C language, to do things that are inconvenient to do in standard, portable C.
Some examples of language extensions:
- in-line assembly language
- interrupt service routines
- variable-length data structure (a structure whose last item is a "zero-length array").[1]
- re-sizeable multidimensional arrays
- various "#pragma" settings to compile quickly, to generate fast code, or to generate compact code.
- bit manipulation, especially bit-rotations and things involving the "carry" bit
- storage alignment
- Arrays whose length is computed at run time.
External links
edit- GNU C: Extensions to the C Language
- C/C++ interpreter Ch extensions to the C language for scripting
- SDCC: Storage Class Language Extensions
- ↑ comp.lang.c FAQ list: Question 2.6: "C99 introduces the concept of a flexible array member, which allows the size of an array to be omitted if it is the last member in a structure, thus providing a well-defined solution."