[SOLVED] Checking support for _Generic() selection in C

Checking support for _Generic() selection in C

I use macro generic selection to "overload" some functions in my custom library and i want to make it as portable as possible, so i'm trying to check whether generic selection support is present by doing

#if ((__STDC_VERSION__>=201112L) || ((__GNUC__*10000+__GNUC_MINOR__*100+__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__)>=40600) || ((__clang_major__*10000+__clang_minor__*100+__clang_patchlevel__)>=30100) || (__xlC__>=0x1201))

(CHECK THE EDIT NOTE ON THE BOTTOM TO SEE ACCURATE COMPILER VERSIONS)

As these compiler versions should support SOME c11 features, but i'm not actually sure whether generic selection is actually supported on these versions; could anyone confirm? alternatively is there another way?

EDIT: compiler version that support _Generic keyword are actually:

((__GNUC__*10000+__GNUC_MINOR__*100+__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__)>=40900) || ((__clang_major__*10000+__clang_minor__*100+__clang_patchlevel__)>=30000) || (__xlC__>=0x1201)

Solution

The strict way to check this is

#if __STDC__==1 && __STDC_VERSION >= 201112L

A compiler may only define __STDC__ to the value 1 if it is a conforming implementation (reference: C11 6.10.8.1). Any conforming implementation with __STDC_VERSION__ >= 201112L must implement _Generic.

There may however be compiler versions that supported _Generic before they had full C11 support - those you have to find in some compiler-specific way.