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ISO Updates C Standard

Posted by timothy on from the now-known-as-d-no-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the new specifications for the C programming language. The standard is known unofficially as C1X and was published officially as ISO/IEC 9899:2011. It provides greater compatibility with the C++ language and adds new features to C (as indicated in the draft)."

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  1. First post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, who cares about that?

    Seriously, though, am I the only one who finds it strange that one has to buy copies of the standard?

    1. Re:First post!! by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually though, most of us. Changes to the C standard are a big deal.

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    2. Re:First post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Oh? $300? For a PDF file? Heh.

    3. Re:First post!! by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

      yes, if you have 300 clams.

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    4. Re:First post!! by Noughmad · · Score: 5, Funny

      The new standard have been on display for free at the Alpha Centauri planning office for the last fifty years.

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    5. Re:First post!! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Informative

      The last draft and the errata are always free downloads. That's what I've been using to implement the atomics stuff in clang / FreeBSD.

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  2. Re:Let's get C99 right first by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who cares about Microsoft these days? Any damage they cause by lagging behind standards is only to themselves, unlike the bad old days. In the modern world GCC is the bar by which Microsoft is measured, and usually found lacking.

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  3. Draft available for free by FrangoAssado · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those interested, the last draft before the official version is available for free here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

  4. Poul-Henning's take on this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/thetoolsweworkwith.html