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In 2007-2009, I worked a job that for most was consisted of maintaining a C89 codebase. We were using OpenWatcom, which at the time did not have complete C99 support.

But in retrospect I'm surprised to see how many features we used liberally would have been unavailable in pure C89. snprintf first and foremost. But also // comments, __func__, and stdint.h



AFAIK almost all of C99 functionality was basically about standardizing features found in existing compilers prior to it.




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