Comment by epx

One thing that C should have is an automatic string type (more like a byte[] than a String) that knows its own size. A huge amount of programming bugs arise from the lack of strings, and I can't see the reason why they could not be supported even in small systems. Delphi/Object Pascal had something like 3 or 5 function pointers that support the string type (create, free, resize, things like that).