And to finish this, as I won't reply any further,

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

There is an endless list of edemic C pitfalls that WG14 has proven not to care to fix.

Auto industy has come up with MISRA, initially for C, exactly because of those issues.

Ideally both languages would be replaced by something better, until it doesn't happen, I stand by my point, the only reason to use C instead of C++, it not having a C++ compiler available, or being prevented to use one, like in most UNIX kernels.

I hold this point of view since 1993, having used C instead of C++ was only when obliged to deliver my work in C, due to delivery requirements where my opinion wasn't worth anything to the decision makers.

So if I was already using C++ within the constraints of a 386 SX, running at 20 Mhz limited to 640 KB ( up to 1 MB) RAM size, under MS-DOS, I certainly will not change it for the 2025 computing world reality.