C's Overlooked Improvements: Compile-Time Function Execution and Module Importing
2025-01-12
This article highlights long-standing shortcomings in C, such as the inability to execute functions at compile time, redundant declarations, and cumbersome header file management. The author, leveraging ImportC (a C compiler embedded within the D language compiler), demonstrates solutions to these issues. These include enabling compile-time function execution for unit testing, allowing arbitrary ordering of global declarations, and the ability to directly import C source files. These improvements significantly enhance development efficiency and code maintainability, showcasing the potential of modern compiler technology to address historical C language limitations.
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