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Authors: WG 14, Batty
Date: 2011-10-14
Reference document: N1584
Submitted against: C11 / C17
Status: Fixed
Fixed in: C17
Converted from: n2396.htm
C11 seems to have inherited part of a joke from C++, which ought to be removed or made whole and annotated as such. Originally, C++0x had the footnotes:
"Atomic objects are neither active nor radioactive" and "Among other implications, atomic variables shall not decay".
The first is pretty clearly a joke, but it's not obvious that the second doesn't have some technical meaning, and that is the one that remains in C11 in 7.17.3p13.
See above.
Comment from WG14 on 2017-11-03:
Oct 2011 meeting
- It is not clear that rewording will make the footnote useful.
Feb 2012
In 7.17.3 Paragraph 13, remove footnote 256.