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A New C Standard Is On the Way

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-guidelines dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Last year, Danny Kalev — a former member of the C++ standards committed — explained the new features in C++. Now, in C11: A New C Standard Aiming at Safer Programming, he shares an overview of the changes in C — 13 years after the ratification of the C99 standard. Kalev describes the goodies in C11, including multi-threading support, safer standard libraries, and better compliance with other industry standards."

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  1. Re:I don't get it... by jd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because C is an ultra-clean procedural language. The entire purpose of using it is the purity. C with OOP can be found in ObjectiveC, C++, C# and D.

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  2. Re: by hawguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The multi-threaded stuff sounds nice. But bounds checking, really? How difficult is it to check buffer size before copying?

    Given the number of buffer overflow bugs that are found in C programs, apparently it's fairly difficult to do it consistently and correctly.

  3. Re: by turbidostato · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I blame the programmers not the language."

    Good! Now you have to change the language once or blame the programmers forever (since you shouldn't expect to change them anytime soon).

  4. Re:On the way? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This being C, 11 would mean that you can turn the volume from 0 all the way up to 10.

  5. Re:Slow Adoption of Current Standards by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft has publicly declared that they have no intention of supporting anything past C95

    I gave up on Microsoft back when Byte magazine was in, or recently beyond, single-digit issue numbers.

    A letter to the editor complained about Microsoft's support of their FORTRAN compiler: There was a bug in the floating point format handling that a customer needed to use. After several iterations of bug reports and fix requests, Microsoft had told the guy that not only had they not fixed it yet, but they were never going to fix it. IMHO that meant Microsoft had an institutional issue with customer support and adherence to standards.

    Avoiding Microsoft software and products has saved me immeasurable grief over the several decades since.

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