From: Nadav Har'El (nyh_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 25 Mar 2003 - 17:15:17 IST
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote about "Re: ANSI C":
> > I suppose it is a draft of a newer standard (?) called
> > C9X. When people speak of ANSI C, they don't normally refer to C9X. If you
> > want your programs to be very portable, you better not rely on C9X extensions.
>
> "ANSI C" is ISO C for more than a decade now, and the latest(?)
So what? I tend to give credit to ANSI for working on this, and call it
ANSI C. I also use the term ASCII, not ISO 646...
> version is C99, slightly over 3 years old now, so I argue that
> C99 is the Standard C today, and this reference is more relevant
> today than that to the older version of the standard. Also, the
How is it more relevant? I would argue the opposite, that most C compilers
do not yet fully support C99, but 99% of the C compilers you'll find nowadays
are compliant with the 1990 ANSI C.
> discussed piece of code doesn't use any C99 "extensions", as you
> put it, so theoretically the standard should be the same in both
> versions.
I guess you're right, and it won't hurt to look at the C99 standard if
it's more readily available.
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