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Subject: Re: C / C++ standards

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:01:24 04/05/05

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On April 05, 2005 at 17:39:19, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 05, 2005 at 17:27:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 05, 2005 at 17:19:40, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>On April 05, 2005 at 16:01:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>The ANSI and ISO C and C++ standards are basically identical.  The differences
>>>>are in page numbering.
>>>>
>>>>You can get the ANSI C and C++ standards for a very cheap price in PDF format.
>>>
>>>Dann, is there really an ANSI Standard for C99? I thought the above would only
>>>be true for the old C89/90 Standard, which C99 had only an ISO Standard.
>>>
>>>A draft of the C99 Standard can be found on the Web - google will help.
>>
>>This is a cut and paste from the official document:
>>INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ©ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E)
>>
>>It's $25, IIRC.
>
>I quoted badly. My question "is there really ..." was not meant to refer to the
>cheap prize, but to the sentence before: "ANSI and Iso standards are basically
>the same ...". I thought, this was true for C89, but not for C99.
>
>And of course, if one is really interested in all the details, the real Standard
>for a cheap prize will be better, than a draft.

Seems like they used to sell it but not any more.  Here is the opening page from
the one that we bought:

INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
ISO/IEC
9899
Second edition
1999-12-01
Programming languages — C
Langages de programmation — C
Processed and adopted by ASC the National Committee for
Information Technology Standards (NCITS) and approved by
ANSI as an American National Standard.
Date of ANSI Approval: 5/22/2000
Published by American National Standards Institute,
11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036
Copyright 2000 by Information Technology Industry Council
(ITI). All rights reserved.
These materials are subject to copyright claims of International
Standardization Organization (ISO), International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), American National Standards Institute (ANSI),
and Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Not for resale.
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form,
including an electronic retrieval system, without the prior written
permission of ITI. All requests pertaining to this standard should be
submitted to ITI, 1250 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20005.
Printed in the United States of America
ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E)
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