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To help our developers, document what C99 language features are being considered for adoption, in addition to what past experiments have already decided. * jc/document-test-balloons-in-flight: CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight
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. since late 2023 with 8277dbe987 we have been using the bool type
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from <stdbool.h>.
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C99 features we have test balloons for:
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. since late 2024 with v2.48.0-rc0~20, we have test balloons for
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compound literal syntax, e.g., (struct foo){ .member = value };
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our hope is that no platforms we care about have trouble using
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them, and officially adopt its wider use in mid 2026. Do not add
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more use of the syntax until that happens.
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New C99 features that we cannot use yet:
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. %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for

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