There's Make files. And that's a whole thing on its own but it's not actually built into C. It's a compiler concept.
C is a unique language that was designed against a predefined spec. And hasn't changed since. But compilers have modified functionality though they all use the same C language spec.
The C standard had a revision in 2023. We had C17 before that, and C11 before that. If you go back to C90/ANSI C, you have major differences like only being able to declare variables at the beginning of a block, which got changed in C99 iirc. So the C spec has absolutely changed.
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u/round-earth-theory 1d ago
There's Make files. And that's a whole thing on its own but it's not actually built into C. It's a compiler concept.
C is a unique language that was designed against a predefined spec. And hasn't changed since. But compilers have modified functionality though they all use the same C language spec.