C23 mode

[spth]

AFAIK, wave currently has a C99 mode and various C++ modes. IMO, it would make sense to add a C23 mode (AFAIK some of the new C23 features are already supported in wave anyway, as extensions or as the corresponding C++ features).

[jefftrull]

Agreed 100%. It's a lot of work keeping up with the standard!

btw I just realized you are the primary SDCC maintainer, who I corresponded with about bitfields :) What do you use Wave for?

[spth]

I don't use it yet. SDCC uses a preprocessor based on the one from GCC. My impression is that GCC keep integrating its preprocessor tighter into the compiler, which makes it harder for us to maintain our fork of their preprocessor. clang has a reputation of the preprocessor being even more integrated than with GCC. A Wave-based preprocessor could be an alternative for SDCC in the long term. Clearly, a preprocessor for SDCC needs to be able to support all the C standards SDCC supports.

[hkaiser]

@spth Could you give us a list of features that you'd like to see implemented? Is it more than the #elifndef, #embed, and #warning directives?

[spth]

There is also #embed (#131).

P.S.: The comma-separated list implementation of #embed would be fine. SDCC targets small devices, so if the performance aspects of #embed matter to a user they are already using arrays bigger than what fits into the target device memory.